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MPLS: Why the Fuss?

Overview The current over-capacity in core networks and the resultant slowdown in the worldwide telecommunications market has caused carriers large and small to reexamine the return on investment from their existing network assets. The near commoditization of bandwidth pricing means that selling on price alone is not a winning strategy: someone else will always be able to sell faster and cheaper bandwidth.

The focus is now on satisfying customer needs. And what customers need are IP services and flexible bandwidth. For delivering multiple network services over a shared network infrastructure, Multi-Protocol Label Switching (MPLS) is emerging as the most important technology. MPLS is the key to accelerated service delivery and the glue that ties together both new and old services.

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Publisher	RiverStone Networks	File Format	HTML & PDF
Date Published	August 2002	Downloads	29
Format	White Papers
Topics	Bandwidth Issues, Industry Standard Protocols, IP Technologies

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