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 ...

DENVER — As extensions to the multiprotocol label switching standard make MPLS viable for virtual private network transport, experts are warning against taking the protocol too far, too fast. MPLS is ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

Despite its stance that Multiprotocol Label Switching (MPLS) is not a technology that Sprint needs in its network, the carrier says by year-end it will introduce an MPLS-based VPN service. Sprint is ...

SANTA CLARA, CALIF. — Extreme Networks Inc. this week will roll out a module that adds Multiprotocol Label Switching (MPLS) to its BlackDiamond Ethernet metropolitan-area network (MAN) switch. Extreme ...