Multiprotocol Label Switching has been without a doubt one of the most successful technologies of the past decade.The advantages of MPLS are many: in addition to protocol neutrality, MPLS is highly ...

How do you know a technology has caught fire? I look for three things: ongoing technical development; a focus on making the technology easy to deploy, configure and manage; and the real indicator – ...

Joel Snyder, Ph.D., is a senior IT consultant with 30 years of practice. An internationally recognized expert in the areas of security, messaging and networks, Dr. Snyder is a popular speaker and ...

Ethernet expands into the WAN and now provides an alternative to wide-area pureplay MPLS. Which technology will win out is anyone’s guess, analysts say. They began as totally separate and distinct ...

Reducing MPLS costs will remain an important reason to deploy SD-WANs, but the networking industry now views SD-WAN as vital to government digital transformation. Steve Zurier is a freelance ...

In two years, the frame relay data network may be as extinct as no-doc mortgages. By 2010, Forrester Research says most large banks, insurers and brokerages will have transitioned to multi-protocol ...

Multi-protocol label switching (MPLS) deployments to date have been focused on providing traffic engineering and network-based IP virtual private network (VPN) capabilities to IP core networks, and to ...

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 ...

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 ...

ANN ARBOR -- Merit Network Inc. will present MPLS: Implementing Cisco MPLS v2.3, a live online course, on Sept. 9-13. In this hands-on course attendees will learn the theory and hands-on knowledge to ...

Discussing the latest news and views about networking, telecoms and broadband. Although SDN and other networking techniques are transforming how networks are architected and operate, they do not ...