Converged IP/MPLS Backbone Networks For 2G And 3G Voice Services Integration
White Papers This paper describes how IP/MPLS technologies support the emerging VoIP infrastructure in mobile networks to facilitate the convergence of 2G and 3G mobile voice services, including the evolution of the VoIP network from the split architecture in...
[February 22, 2007, 0:00]
DiffServ Over MPLS: Tuning QOS Parameters For Converged Traffic Using Linux Traffic Control
White Papers MPLS over DiffServ couples the diffserv's per hop guarantees with MPLS traffic engineering capabilities to provide better Quality of Service (QoS) guarantees than that provided by MPLS or DiffServ alone.
[June 25, 2008, 1:01]
Multiprotocol Label Switching Makes For Mainstream
News While newer carriers such as Equant and Level 3 have essentially built their network backbones using MPLS, many traditional carriers, such as AT&T and MCI, are still moving their disparate voice and data networks onto a fully converged MPLS...
[February 9, 2004, 14:30]
True Leads Business Network Convergence With Launch Of "MPLS Data Networking Solution" Over Cisco IP NGN
White Papers True expanded its services portfolio for corporate and Small and Medium-sized Enterprise (SME) customers with its MPLS Data Networking Solution, a service based on the Cisco Systems Internet Protocol Next-Generation Network (IP NGN) architecture...
[June 2, 2006, 0:00]
Cisco IOS MPLS Bandwidth-Assured Layer 2 Services
White Papers Cisco IOS MPLS Bandwidth-Assured Layer 2 Services is a standards-based solution that enables the deployment of premium Layer 2 services over a Multi Protocol Label Switching (MPLS) network. Using MPLS as the core technology, service providers can...
[August 4, 2008, 0:00]
MPLS VPNs: What's Next (webinar)
White Papers MPLS VPNs create a robust platform for converged services that allow cost-effective, any-to-any connectivity. As convergence moves to the next stage, distinctions between wireless and wireline are blurring, and collaboration is becoming part of the...
[May 30, 2007, 13:14]
Lucent Technologies And Juniper Networks: Why Converge On MPLS?
White Papers This white paper describes how service providers can use MPLS to evolve to a converged network that enables them to shed expensive overlay networks in favor of a seamlessly interconnected multi-service network.
[March 2, 2004, 11:20]
The Bi-Mesh Survivable Network - Fast Recovery From Node Failure In MPLS Enabled Networks
White Papers Today's converged networks are increasingly based on MPLS technology. To provide reliable carrier-grade service, MPLS-based recovery procedures must be able to quickly address any link or node failure.
[July 4, 2008, 1:00]
Convergence: Enabling Your Network With MPLS
White Papers MPLS is the ideal environment for supporting a converged architecture, according to Tom Siracusa, Director of VPN Strategy at AT&T Labs. MPLS offers the privacy of frame relay and ATM networks, as well as the flexibility that IP networks provide.
[December 12, 2006, 12:22]
Multi-Protocol Label Switching (MPLS): Conformance And Performance Testing
White Papers MPLS (Multi-Protocol Label Switching) has emerged as a key enabling technology for this migration. MPLS technology has proven its value for delivering new services while at the same time allowing migration from old to new networks.
[April 2, 2004, 0:04]
Lucent Data Networking: Evolution At The Multiservice Edge
White Papers The new multiservice edge switch can maximize the profitability of existing services while enabling a broad range of new services and seamlessly migrating to a converged MPLS core network. This paper discusses the importance of multiservice edge...
[March 7, 2005, 2:00]
ATM/MPLS Interworking Transition Strategy: Bringing MPLS To The Layer 2 Core
White Papers Additionally, it will outline a new vision for a converged ATM/MPLS core - one that allows carriers to reap the benefits of MPLS in existing Layer 2 networks in a way that optimizes capital expenditure and protects the existing customer base.
[August 14, 2003, 16:19]
A Comparison Of Multiprotocol Label Switching (MPLS) Traffic-Engineering Initiatives
White Papers Multiprotocol label switching (MPLS) is one of several initiatives to enable delivery on the promise of a converged network. Currently, there is an initiative to deliver traffic-engineering capabilities to MPLS.
[August 14, 2003, 0:00]
Implement QoS On Multiprotocol Label Switching (MPLS) VPNs
White Papers This sample chapter, taken from Selecting MPLS VPN Services, covers the requirements for supporting the converged world of Multiprotocol Label Switching (MPLS) VPNs and how this maps to QoS policy applicable in the enterprise.Title: Selecting MPLS...
[May 19, 2006, 1:00]
Routing Innovation: Rising Expectations In IP Networking
White Papers This vision—one built on converged IP Multiprotocol Label Switching (IP/MPLS) packet infrastructures and able to consolidate the many communications services that today still require separate networks—will be constructed using routing systems with...
[February 15, 2005, 2:00]
Converging ATM/Frame Relay Over MPLS - Solving Control Plane Interworking
White Papers The emergence of new standards for Layer 2 transport, new Layer 3 applications, and multiservice interworking over MultiProtocol Label Switching (MPLS) have made MPLS a desirable framework for integrating specialized ATM, Frame Relay, and IP...
[June 25, 2008, 1:01]
Consolidating Networks Using Cisco Any Transport Over MPLS
White Papers The Cisco Any Transport over MPLS (AToM) solution leverages Multi-protocol Label Switching (MPLS) core networks to build and maximize Layer 2 and 3 service revenues by consolidating networks on the industry's leading multi-service platform, the...
[March 2, 2004, 11:20]
The AT&T Seven Pillars Of MPLS Security
White Papers AT&T has developed seven MPLS security methods: the separation of data, automation, monitoring, operational controls, testing, rapid response, and innovation. To be effective, security in the converged environment must address all infrastructure...
[May 30, 2007, 13:14]
Axispoint Enhances Operational Efficiency And Improves Customer Service At Luxury Retail Operation
White Papers The Axispoint solution offered a fully converged voice, data, and video infrastructure delivered over the company's existing MPLS-based network. Waterworks needed a solution that could maximize their existing MPLS-based network, while offering...
[July 11, 2008, 1:02]
Quality Of Service In The Borderless Enterprise
White Papers DiffServ/TOS, RSVP, and MPLS. With the trends towards IP telephony and converged applications becoming a reality, there is now a greater need to incorporate Quality of Service (QoS) in the network infrastructure.
[March 2, 2004, 11:20]

