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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 – ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

MPLS – or Multiprotocol Label Switching – has been one of the big tech success stories of the past decade. 7 reasons MPLS has been wildly successful And yet, it’s become rather difficult to find an ...

Premium technology company Alcatel-LucentALU recently declared that it has successfully deployed a monitoring, information, management and control system based on Internet Protocol/Multi-Protocol ...

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 ...