Well, universally, telecommunications service providers are searching for next-generation data networks. These new networks will focus on offering value-added services to users—especially corporate ...

Some researchers spend years working on architectures and technologies that are never adopted by industry or that are used only as transition technologies. Witness the scores who worked on ...

You may not be familiar with the term Multiprotocol Label Switching (MPLS); however, it is a technology that that will find a way into your facility in the not-too-distant future, if not already ...

Plans to deploy virtual private networks using a new technology have sparked recent controversy, with the debate illustrating the need for technology managers to tune in to different ways carriers ...

I always wanted to create a headline without words. This is my chance. You have heard of Multi-Protocol Label Switching (MPLS), but Virtual Private LAN Service (VPLS) may be new to you. MPLS has been ...

The Multiprotocol Label Switching standard is coming into vogue as a way to provide SONET-like resiliency in packet networks. Created five years ago to provide more deterministic behavior in IP ...

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 ...

LAS VEGAS — While frame relay may be one of the most widely accepted ways of linking geographically dispersed corporate sites, MultiProtocol Label Switching (MPLS), a no-nonsense high-speed routing ...

As conference director for MPLScon and owner of the MPLS Resource Center ( www.mplsrc.com), I took an especially keen interest in the story “Experts Call MPLS Bad For ‘Net”. Unfortunately, it seems ...

Multisite and outsourced IT operations are making good use of Multiprotocol Label Switching (MPLS), but strange trouble is turning up more and more. Often in discussion with local network staffers, we ...