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 ...

VPLS lets carriers create a service that looks and feels just like a wide-area LAN, but is more robust and reliable. In case of failure anywhere in the network, the carrier will route a user’s traffic ...

Wide-area networks connecting organisations' sites using a technology called MPLS - short for Multi-Protocol Label Switching - aren't as popular as recent headlines would have us believe. That's the ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...