Chapter 15 Mpls Management; Introduction - Cisco 12000 User Manual

MPLS Management
This chapter describes the Multi Protocol Label Switching (MPLS) management tasks that can be
performed using the Cisco 12000/10720 Router Manager application.
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Introduction

Multiprotocol Label Switching (MPLS) fuses the intelligence of routing with the performance of
switching and provides significant benefits to networks with a pure IP architecture as well as those with
IP and ATM or a mix of other Layer 2 technologies. MPLS technology is key to scalable virtual private
networks (VPNs) and end-to-end quality of service (QoS), enabling efficient utilization of existing
networks to meet future growth and rapid fault correction of link and node failure. Similar to Layer 2
networks (for example, Frame Relay or ATM), MPLS assigns labels to packets for transport across
packet- or cell-based networks. The forwarding mechanism throughout the network is label swapping,
in which units of data (for example, a packet or a cell) carry a short, fixed-length label that tells switching
nodes along the packet's path how to process and forward the data.
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Introduction
MPLS Management Workflow
Launching the MPLS Management Windows
MPLS Forwarding Information
Fault Management for MPLS LSR Interfaces
– MPLS Interface Status
MPLS Interface Information
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Performance Management for MPLS LSR Interfaces
– MPLS Interface Performance
Fault Management for MPLS LDP
– MPLS LDP Entity Status Window
MPLS LDP Hello Adjacencies
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– MPLS LDP Peer Status
Fault Management for MPLS Traffic Engineering
– MPLS Tunnel Information
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