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 ...

Recently, a reader wrote to tell me about the big relief he felt when he bought a Layer 3 MPLS VPN service. With such a site-to-site service, one option is to peer the WAN routers at customer sites ...

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 ...

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 ...