Today, I had the opportunity to speak with an industry analyst about several topics. Mostly he was gushing about multiprotocol label switching (MPLS). The future is MPLS, a standard developed by the ...

Traffic analysis vendor Network Physics last week announced it added Multi-protocol Label Switching support to its flagship appliance – and just in time, according to a recent survey that says MPLS ...

In our last newsletter, we continued the discussion of MPLS service-level agreements that we started in late April.The focus of the last newsletter was a description of how service providers typically ...

The goals for benchmarking enterprise-wide area network (WAN) costs nearly a decade ago were simple. Customers wanted to ensure that their carrier – often a single global telco – had lowered MPLS ...

MPLS VPN is one of the most efficient VPN infrastructures that allows the usage of multiple protocol switching techniques to provide its services. It primarily consists of a number of sites that are ...

A sea change in networking that happens every ten to 11 years saw the arrival of multi-protocol label switching (MPLS) in 2000, and another inflection point in the industry is set to break existing ...

MPLS – or Multiprotocol Label Switching – has been one of the big tech success stories of the past decade. 7 reasons MPLS has been wildly successful And yet, it’s become rather difficult to find an ...

The MPLS Transport Profile (MPLS-TP) standard was developed to address a serious problem facing carriers -- traffic on their transport networks has shifted rapidly from circuit-switched TDM traffic to ...

Wide-area networks connecting organisations' sites using a technology called MPLS - short for Multi-Protocol Label Switching - aren't as popular as recent headlines would have us believe. That's the ...

With the ever growing demand for bandwidth primarily being driven by the wireless-mobile market, the communication equipment suppliers are on a quest to transform the existing cell-based grid into ...