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MPLS: What Is It? What Can It Do for Me? by Global Knowledge
MPLS is a foundational technology that allows service providers and enterprise architects to offer state-...
Solution Brief: Building MPLS+ Managed Services by Blue Coat
to differentiate their MLPS solution. What It Takes To Build MPLS+ Managed Service... Blue Coat works with managed service provider partners to implement the underlying...
Four Steps to True End-to-End Service for MPLS IP VPNs by CA
Multi-protocol Layer Switching (MPLS) VPNs are the ideal solution for medium and large enterprises that currently deploy site-to-site VPN...
Airports Use Network Virtualization to Consolidate and Scale Operations by Cisco Systems, Inc.
to successfully implement network virtualization using MPLS VPN technology. Unique is the operator of Zurich Airport and offers a broad service portfolio to about 180...
How Service Providers Can Offer Premium Services and Increase Revenue by Effectively Managing VPNs by CA
In this paper, CA SPECTRUM can manage the complexities of MPLS VPN services, enabling service providers to take advantage of this growing market opportunity. Service...
The Intelligent Services Edge -- Driving Service Innovation with Versatile Edge Routing Platforms by Juniper Networks, Inc.
and by consolidating service-specific networks to IP/MPLS. To make further gains, service providers are now looking to shift their edge infrastructure investments...
Application List: Applications that Blue Coat PacketShaper Classifies and Controls by Blue Coat
Citrix Published Application, IP address, VLAN, MAC, MPLS tag, DiffServ, TOS and more. This application-layer visibility enables enterprises to quickly identify and...
Telecom Resource Center
IP QoS: Two generations of class-of-service tools by Ivan Pepelnjak
on advanced IP-based networks and web technologies. His books include MPLS and VPN Architectures and EIGRP Network Design. You can read his blog here: http://ioshints.blogspot.com/index.html

Offering quality... More...
Oct 2, 2008
Managing protocol layers in carrier infrastructure by Tom Nolle
engineering and route management facilities. These are also offered by MPLS. In a network that implements IP over Ethernet, which layer does traffic engineering? The answer may lie in the specific benefits... More...
May 19, 2008
Juniper works to cut providers' wireless backhaul costs, converging TDM, ATM with Ethernet by Michael Morisy, News Writer
transport technologies and push them over Ethernet alongside newer IP/MPLS networks.

By reducing the physical connections needed to stream multiple wireless technologies, and by doing it all over cheaper... More...

Apr 1, 2008
MPLS solutions: Gathering customer requirements is job 1 by Doug Downer
from service providers is a Multi-Protocol Label Switching (MPLS) backbone connection. In this article, I will address one of the critical success factors to adding this new functionality and MPLS... More...
Mar 28, 2008
5 essential reasons for BGP in your IP network by Ivan Pepelnjak
technologies used to implement Layer 3 VPN services in recent years, and MPLS-based VPNs have undoubtedly proven to be the most scalable solution, partly due to using BGP as the underlying routing protocol... More...
Jan 9, 2008
Telecom Related Definitions
Carrier Ethernet
over Synchronous Digital Hierarchy (SDH) Ethernet over Multiprotocol Label Switching (MPLS)

Conventional Ethernet is the least expensive type of system but it can... More...

Jul 29, 2007