Supporting Service Level Agreements on IP Networks

Dinesh Verma

274 pages, parution le 10/07/1999

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Résumé

During the past decade, service level agreements have arisen, as a way to guarantee particular quality of service levels for network performance. These agreements continue to grew in complexity as more advanced quality-enhancing technologies are developed to improve network performance. Supporting Service Level Agreements on IP Networks presents critical information for Internet Service Provider (ISP) network engineers on the technologies they can use to support varying levels of service and gives enterprise network architects and IS managers a means to evaluate the services provided. Written to include the latest information on emerging service differentiation technologies, this comprehensive guide covers

SLA support using network design, Frame Relay, and ATM technologies
The protocols and schemes being developed in both the IETF Differentiated Services (DiffServ) and Integrated Services (IntServ) working groups, and discussion of how they can be exploited to support SLAs
The framework of SLAs in various networking environments, including best-effort, DiffServ and InServ networks
Network performance monitoring and SLA verification techniques

Service level agreement definition and deployment is a key issue for ISPs and other network service providers as they construct a quality of service architecture for IP networks. Air essential resource for network engineers and architects, Supporting Service Level Agreements on IP Network will help you.

Build a core network capable of supporting different service levels
Provide Web-hosting or application-hosting services with SLA support
Offer virtual private networks (VPNs) with SLA support
Create SLA solutions using off-the-shelf components in both best-effort and DiffServ/lntServ networks
Verify the performance of your SLA, as either a customer or network services provider.