The Move To MPLS-Based VPNs: Exploring Service Options
White Papers IT managers continue to learn more about and appreciate the values of Multiprotocol Label Switching (MPLS)-based VPN services as a viable corporate wide-area network (WAN) alternative. As IT managers consider moving to the new MPLS-based VPN...
[August 25, 2004, 10:33]
On The Throughput-Cost Tradeoff Of Multi-Tiered Optical Network Architectures
White Papers This paper conducts a throughput-cost study of several optical network architectures: Optical Flow Switching (OFS), Tell-and-Go (TaG), Electronic Packet Switching (EPS), and Generalized MultiProtocol Label Switching (GMPLS).
[July 18, 2008, 1:01]
Virtual Villains Of Security & PCI Compliance: Future Challenges Of MPLS, Virtual Machines And VLANs
White Papers The areas of Multiprotocol Label Switching (MPLS), Virtual Local Area Network (VLAN), and Virtual Machine (VM) technology all relate to current PCI requirements. Each area is organized with the following sections:
[July 29, 2008, 0:00]
Multipoint Bridged Ethernet Using MPLS Virtual Private LAN Services
White Papers Virtual Private LAN Services (VPLS) is an implementation of Multipoint Bridged Ethernet (MBE) that uses MultiProtocol Label Switching (MPLS) to implement multiple MBE service instances in a scalable manner with Quality of Service (QoS) and...
[January 12, 2008, 0:01]
MPLS, Frame Relay, And Ethernet
White Papers This paper looks at the use of existing Frame Relay deployments with integrated support from Ethernet services in the deployment of Multiprotocol Label Switching (MPLS) in metropolitan area networks. The significance of Frame Relay/Ethernet...
[November 23, 2007, 3:39]
MPLS VPN Networking And Migration Considerations
White Papers Multiprotocol Label Switching, or MPLS, was defined in the late 1990s to replace IP over ATM in Internet backbones. Since then, other uses of MPLS in the virtual private network (VPN) arena have emerged, as evidenced by the thousands of customers...
[March 5, 2007, 12:10]
Consolidation The Easy Way With Fibernet VPN
White Papers Fibernet proposed a Multi-protocol Label Switching (MPLS) based, IP virtual private network (VPN). The acquisition period the international insurance broker has been through over the past three years had resulted in the inheritance of wide area...
[April 18, 2005, 0:00]
Multi-Protocol Label Switching And The NGenius Solution
White Papers Multi-Protocol Label Switching (MPLS) is becoming mainstream as enterprises and government agencies look for new ways to lower costs, extend scalability, improve reliability, and secure their networked data.
[July 4, 2008, 1:00]
Standards Spat Could Cause MPLS Downtime
News The Internet Engineering Task Force (IETF) has locked horns with the International Telecommunication Union (ITU) over future MPLS (Multi-Protocol Label Switching) standards. Enterprises will be hoping that two warring standards bodies can next week...
[September 6, 2007, 13:30]
MPLS Takeup Hampered By Ignorance
News 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 main finding of research out this week by ISP izR...
[January 6, 2005, 11:30]
BT To Handle Manpower Data
News Domestic connections will be linked via Digital Subscriber Line service and are in turned hooked up to BT's worldwide multiprotocol label switching (MPLS) network. Under the agreement, the telecommunications company will migrate Manpower's data...
[May 27, 2004, 11:50]
2002: The Top Ten In IT Hype
News They've already moved on to MPLS (multi-protocol label switching), wireless, and a host of similarly geeky subjects. This was supposed to be the year when Fibre Channel storage area networking technology would start its inevitable decline as it got...
[December 24, 2002, 8:56]
BT To Put 'brains' On The Edge Of New Network
News BT is implementing a major upgrade of its telecommunications infrastructure to create a more advanced IP-based network using high-capacity routers that will support protocols such as MPLS (multiprotocol label switching).
[June 8, 2004, 17:15]
Going Over The Multiservice Edge
News These devices aggregate customer traffic, including Frame Relay, ATM (Asynchronous Transfer Mode), Ethernet and leased line, and dump it onto a multiprotocol label switching (MPLS) backbone. This means boxes need switching capacity to handle up to...
[February 24, 2004, 14:35]
Multi-Area MPLS/GMPLS Interoperability Trial Over 14-Vendor Packet/TDM/ROADM/OXC Network
White Papers The Generalized Multi-Protocol Label Switching (GMPLS) technology is a framework that unifies network control of various types of Network Elements (NEs) across multiple network layers. This framework not only enables network operators to simplify...
[June 25, 2008, 1:01]
