Books on Multiprotocol Label Switching (MPLS) ¹

One to five asterisks in front of the some of the books represent our subjective view of their goodness. The titles without asterisks have not been rated. The books are arranged in the reverse order of year of publication.

Recommended:

• [*****] Bruce S. Davie, Yakov Rekhter, " MPLS: Technology and Applications," Morgan Kaufmann Publishers, May 2000, 300 pages.
• [*****] Stephen A. Thomas, " IP Switching and Routing Essentials: Understanding RIP, OSPF, BGP, MPLS, CR-LDP, and RSVP-TE," Wiley, December 2001, 352 pages.
• [*****] Rita Puzmanova, " Routing and Switching: Time of Convergence?," Addison-Wesley, December 2001, 1008 pages.
• [*****] Vivek Alwayn, " Advanced MPLS Design and Implementation," Cisco Press, September 2001, 496 pages.
• [*****] Sean Odom, Hanson Nottingham, " Cisco Switching Black Book: A Practical In-Depth Guide to Configuring, Operating and Managing Cisco LAN Switches," The Coriolis Group, November 2000, 656 pages.
• [*****] Jim Guichard, Ivan Pepelnjak, " MPLS and VPN Architectures: A Practical Guide to Understanding, Designing and Deploying MPLS and MPLS-Enabled VPNs," Cisco Press, October 2000, 420 pages.
• [*****] Certification Insider Press, " CCNA Routing and Switching Value Pack," The Coriolis Group, September 2000, 1250 pages.
• [*****] Richard Deal, " CCNP Switching Exam Cram," The Coriolis Group, June 2000, 512 pages.
• [*****] Mark A. Poplar, et al, " CCNA Routing and Switching Exam Prep," The Coriolis Group, May 2000, 760 pages.
• [*****] Howard C. Berkowitz, " Network Architecture and Development Series: Designing Routing and Switching Architectures," Macmillan Technical Publishing, November 1999, 964 pages.
• [*****] Bruce S. Davie, Paul Doolan, Yakov Rekhter, " Switching in IP Networks: IP Switching, Tag Switching and Related Technologies," Morgan Kaufmann Publishers, July 1998, 255 pages.
• [*****] George C. Sackett, Christopher Metz, " ATM and Multiprotocol Networking," McGraw-Hill, January 1997, 341 pages.
• [****] Eric W. Gray, " MPLS: Implementing the Technology," Addison-Wesley, March 2001, 272 pages.
• [****] Joseph W. Habraken, Joe Habraken, " CCNA 2.0 640-507 Routing and Switching Cheat Sheet," Que, October 2000, 304 pages.
• [****] Todd Lammle, et al, " CCNP: Switching Study Guide," Sybex, October 2000, 688 pages.
• [****] Sean Odom, Doug Hammond, Doug, " CCNP Switching Exam Prep," The Coriolis Group, July 2000, 696 pages.
• [****] Karen Webb, " Building Cisco Multilayer Switched Networks," Cisco Press, May 2000, 500 pages.
• [****] Darryl P. Black, Daryl Paul Black, " Building Switched Networks: Multilayer Switching, QoS, IP Multicast, Network Policy, and Service Level Agreements," Addison-Wesley, February 1999, 298 pages.

• Peter Tomsu, Gerhard Wieser, " MPLS-Based VPNs Designing Advanced Virtual Networks," Prentice Hall, December 2001, 300 pages.
• Vasilis Theoharakis, Dimitrios Serpanos, " Enterprise Networking: Multilayer Switching and Applications," Idea Group Publishing, December 2001, 282 pages.
• H. Jonathan Chao, Cheuk H. Lam, Eiji Oki, " Broadband Packet Switching Technologies: A Practical Guide to ATM Switches and IP Routers," Wiley, September 2001, 464 pages.
• Ding-Zhu-Du, Hung Q. Ngo, " Switching Networks : Recent Advances," Kluwer, June 2001, 368 pages.
• Richard Deal, " CCNA Routing and Switching Exam Cram Personal Test Center," The Coriolis Group, February 2001.

• Uyless Black, " Multi-Protocol Label Switching," Prentice Hall, December 2000, 235 pages.
• Osborne McGraw-Hill,, " CCNP Switching Study Guide (Exam 640-504) (Book/CD)," , December 2000, 625 pages.
• Peter Loshin, Pete Loshin, " Big Book of Multiprotocol Label Switching RFCs," Morgan Kaufmann Publishers, December 2000, 472 pages.
• Yoram Bernet, Scott O. Bradner, " Network Quality of Service and Windows Operating Systems," New Riders Publishing, November 2000, 705 pages.
• Systems, Inc. Cisco, " CIM LAN Switching," Cisco Press, October 2000, 20 pages.
• Regis J. Bates, Zeecil Kimmel, Steven Elliot, " Nortel Networks Layer 3 Switching," McGraw-Hill, October 2000, 352 pages.
• Henry Benjamin, Thomas M. Thomas, " CCIE Routing and Switching Exam Cram," The Coriolis Group, August 2000, 528 pages.
• Jason Waters, Kurt Hudson, " CCNA Routing and Switching Exam Cram Audio Review," The Coriolis Group, August 2000.
• Certification Insider Press, Cip Author Team, " CCNA Routing and Switching Exam Cram Personal Trainer," The Coriolis Group, August 2000, 400 pages.
• Robert Gradante, Bob Gradante, " CCNA Routing and Switching Practice Tests Exam Cram," The Coriolis Group, July 2000, 368 pages.
• Que,, " CCIE Prep Kit 350-001 Routing and Switching," , June 2000, 522 pages.
• Robert Gradante, " CCNA Routing and Switching Exam Cram Flashcards," The Coriolis Group, June 2000, 250 pages.
• Thomas M. Thomas II, John C. Bass, James E. Robinson III, " BCMSN: Building Cisco Multilayer Switched Networks," McGraw-Hill, May 2000, 560 pages.

• William R. Parkhurst, " Cisco Multicasting Routing & Switching," McGraw-Hill, June 1999, 368 pages.
• Cisco Systems Inc., " Cisco IOS 12.0 Switching Services," Cisco Press, April 1999, 421 pages.
• Jim Metzler, James A. Metzler, Lynn A. Denoia, " Layer 3 Switching : A Guide for It Professionals," Prentice Hall, November 1998.
• Christopher Y. Metz, " IP Switching: Protocols and Architectures," McGraw-Hill, October 1998, 464 pages.
• Cisco Systems Inc., " Cisco IOS Switching Services," Cisco Press, March 1998, 350 pages.
• Daniel Minoli, John Doyle, Andrew Schmidt, " Network Layer Switched Services," Wiley, February 1998, 384 pages.
• Andrew Schmidt, Daniel Minoli, " Multiprotocol over ATM Building State of the Art ATM Intranets Utilizing RSVP, NHRP, LANE, Flow Switching, and WWW Technology," Prentice Hall, 326 pages.