IP MPLS Tutorials The Five Best Tutorials on IP MPLS and MPLS-TP

MPLS-TP: The Next Evolution of Your Network
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eMbaduTHfig
This hour-long webinar from IP test company Ixia focuses on MPLS-TP (Transport Protocol) and in the process, gives a good IP MPLS tutorial highlighting the differences from MPLS-TP. Product Manager Peter Atanasovski also spends the last 15 minutes answering questions from audience members.

Atanasovski tells his audience that the evolution toward packet-based networks will continue to accelerate. The transition is being driven by traffic growth from both fixed and mobile access networks, cost savings and the demand for network convergence.
A converged network, he adds, “needs to be optimized to carry packets, because that is the predominant type of traffic that’s carried in today’s networks, as well as tomorrow’s.”
“MPLS is actually fairly well-positioned to be the packet transport technology of choice,” Atanasovski says.
Chalk Talk: MPLS vs. MPLS-TP
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iNuTM3rF18c
A five-minute IP MPLS tutorial comparing and contrasting IP MPLS and MPLS-TP, from Ciena Chalk Talk. Bashar Abdullah explains the differences in network routing between the two, and congruent vs. non-congruent paths.
“MPLS-TP makes use of MPLS, but applies constraints and has eliminated some of the complex functions that makes networks unpredictable and non-deterministic,” Abdullah says — functions such as penultimate hop-popping (PHP), LSP merge, and Equal Cost Multi-Path. However, MPLS-TP maintains some of the functions of MPLS such as pseudowire emulation architecture and efficient forwarding through label switching.
RCR Wireless Webinar: Advantages of MPLS for Mobile Backhaul

An RCR webinar featuring David Boland, senior manager of mobile service provider solutions from Juniper Networks. Designed for both technical and non-technical viewers to understand drivers and features of MPLS for mobile backhaul.
This in-depth webinar provides perspective on multiple facets of MPLS in mobile backhaul networks, relating to service assurance; network reliability and resiliency; zero-touch provisioning and network scalability. Boland also discussed MPLS support for legacy 2G and 3G services, as well as MPLS as a platform for providing new services.
“Another beautiful thing about MPLS is its support for legacy services,” says Boland. “This is becoming increasingly important when the discussion turns to reducing opex (operating expenses) in the network. With the increase of bandwidth demands per user, combined with the decrease of average revenue per user over the past few years for 2G and 3G, mobile operators and TSPs need to evolve their mobile backhaul networks to be more fast and efficient, thereby lowering the cost per bit in the backhaul network.”
Ethernet vs. MPLS-TP for Connection-Oriented Ethernet

This webinar from Fujitsu features Ralph Santitoro, director of CE market development; and Michael Kennedy, managing partner of Network Strategy Partners (which was acquired by ACG Research in early 2011), speaking about Connection-Oriented Ethernet compared to MPLS-TP in terms of complexity and cost. Kennedy says that two philosophical camps have evolved: service providers who are committed to the path of MPLS, and those who are focused on Carrier Ethernet.
“There are some companies that are very much committed to MPLS solutions, so needless to say, they’re very much in the MPLS-TP part of the connection-oriented camp,” Kennedy says in the video. “There are others who are very heavily involved in Carrier Ethernet-based technology, and they, of course, are especially interested in connection-oriented Ethernet and are probably the most aggressive about trying to move off of legacy technology onto connection-oriented Ethernet.”
Benefits of MPLS Networks
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7-FYBHgaJLo
Telecom consultant Chris Newell with Global Communications Group Inc. explains the basics of connection remote locations via MPLS in this IP MPLS tutorial: the technology’s features and key benefits.
“It gives you the ability to have fail-overs, or multiple fail-overs, within a network, without having to have multiple connections,” Newell says.