Among these emerging services are packet telephony, videoconferencing, e-commerce, and other mission-critical data, voice, and video applications. A VPN solution built with MPLS/VPN technology affords broad scalability and flexibility across any IP, IP+ATM, or multi-vendor backbone. In contrast with IP tunnel and virtual-circuit architectures, MPLS-based VPNs enable connectionless routing within each VPN community. Subsequently, service providers can easily scale their services to support tens of thousands of VPNs on the same infrastructure, with full QoS benefits across IP and ATM environments.

This course gives students the understanding of MPLS and VPN technology, design skills, and implementation knowledge needed to deploy successfully VPN services based on MPLS/VPN.