Why should you use MPLS traffic engineering technology? MPLS VPN is often used by IT management as a catch-all term when procuring a Layer 3 virtual private routed network (VPRn). VPRn products are ...

Multiprotocol Label Switching (MPLS) is a switching mechanism used in wide area networks (WANs). MPLS uses labels instead of network addresses to route traffic optimally via shorter pathways. MPLS is ...

Enterprises will be hoping that two warring standards bodies can next week sort out a problem with the widely used MPLS protocol that threatens to cause widespread disruption in companies' wide area ...

Over the past few days, a long-simmering disagreement between the ITU-T and the IETF over a management protocol for telecom-operator networks erupted into the open. The technology at the heart of the ...

Editor's Note: To view a PDF version of this article, Click Here. Multiprotocol label-switching (MPLS) technology is about to take off. As the most widely used MPLS routers, label edge routers (LERs) ...

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 ...

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 ...

In the last two posts I discussed the role of FECs in MPLS networks, and implicit and explicit null labels. In this brief post I’d like to discuss MPLS label stacking, as a preliminary to a couple of ...

A sea change in networking that happens every ten to 11 years saw the arrival of multi-protocol label switching (MPLS) in 2000, and another inflection point in the industry is set to break existing ...

The purpose of this Implementation Agreement (IA) is to define a method for conveying voice directly over MPLS without first encapsulating the voice sample in Internet Protocol (IP). There are many ...