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 – ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...