How can you make multivendor services work smoothly on today's complex networks? This practical book shows you how to deploy a large portfolio of multivendor Multiprotocol Label Switching (MPLS) services on networks down to the configuration level You'll learn where Juniper Network's Junos Cisco's IOS XR & Open Contrail interoperate & where they don't Two network & cloud professionals from Juniper describe how MPLS technologies & applications have rapidly evolved through services & architectures such as Ethernet VPNs Network Function Virtualization Seamless MPLS Egress Protection External Path Computation & more This book contains no vendor bias or corporate messages just solid information on how to get a multivendor network to function optimally Topics include Introduction to MPLS & Software-Defined Networking (SDN) The four MPLS Builders (LDP RSVP-TE IGP SPRING & BGP) Layer 3 unicast & multicast MPLS services Layer 2 VPN VPLS & Ethernet VPN Inter-domain MPLS Services Underlay & overlay architectures data centers NVO & NFV Centralized Traffic Engineering & TE bandwidth reservations Scaling MPLS transport & services Transit fast restoration based on the IGP & RSVP-TE FIB optimization & egress service for fast restoration