Multi-protocol Label Switching (MPLS) has become one of the hot new technologies — a darling of IP and ATM vendors, espoused by edge and core players alike. It even has its own forum, a sure sign of ...

It’s funny how things come in waves. For most of last year the majority of my consulting engagements concerned IPv6 in some way or another. But over the past month and a half most of my time has been ...

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 ...

I’ve written several posts on different aspects of MPLS: How the FEC is key to the separation of control and forwarding functions in MPLS, the difference between implicit and explicit null labels, how ...

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 ...

SAN JOSE, Calif.–Oct. 14, 2003–SwitchCore, a fabless semiconductor company leading the Gigabit Ethernet (GigE) switch-on-a-chip industry, announced the Xpeedium-II™ family of products. Xpeedium-II™ ...

Ohio-based network provider First Communications is planning to deploy a multiprotocol label switching (MPLS) network architecture across its network when it completes the rollout of dense wavelength ...

Discussing the latest news and views about networking, telecoms and broadband. Although SDN and other networking techniques are transforming how networks are architected and operate, they do not ...

Switching systems continue to be called on to deliver higher packet throughputs and higher quality-of-service levels. Switching circuits controlling the data flow must perform more and more packet ...