Today, I had the opportunity to speak with an industry analyst about several topics. Mostly he was gushing about multiprotocol label switching (MPLS). The future is MPLS, a standard developed by the ...

Traffic analysis vendor Network Physics last week announced it added Multi-protocol Label Switching support to its flagship appliance – and just in time, according to a recent survey that says MPLS ...

Many carriers are replacing their aging ATM WAN services with Multi-protocol Label Switching services. Carriers and equipment manufacturers virtually have stopped enhancing their ATM networks and ...

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 ...

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 ...

An in-depth look at the latest trends and technologies in enterprise networking. Of all the regularly repeated “yeah right” claims within IT, “MPLS is dead” probably ranks highest (if not in Rome).

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 ...