GMPLS Technologies: Broadband Backbone Networks and Systems addresses the basics, network architectures, protocol, and traffic engineering needed to operate MPLS and GMPLS networks. The book begins with an introduction to broadband networks. It describes the basics of control-oriented networks and IP, and examines the fundamentals of MPLS. This volume covers MPLS applications, and details IP router structures. It illustrates GMPLS, and explores studies on traffic engineering in GMPLS Networks. The text concludes with a description of IP, MPLS, and GMPLS standardization topics. Network equipment design engineers and network service provision engineers can reference this book to understand the crucial techniques for building MPLS/GMPLS-based networks.