Are we on the verge of a step-change in the quality of networking, a change that will put what we've come to expect from the likes of Asynchronous Transfer Mode (ATM), Frame Relay and all-IP to shame?
For multinationals, moving from international Frame Relay circuits to an MPLS IP VPN does not necessarily save money in the short term though longer-term financial payoffs are already being reported by early adopters.
Besides the increasingly popular IP, it works with protocols such as ATM and Frame Relay. MPLS stands for Multiprotocol Label Switching and is used for prioritising and speeding up network traffic, making it easier to guarantee a certain quality of...
In practice, the former involves finding a method of utilising traditional SDH infrastructure to transport IP using time-honoured protocols such as ATM and Frame Relay. In each location, we have an IP VPN router, SDH optical equipment and a Frame...
Because of that Sprint is from today offering simplified SLAs across its data portfolio, to both new and existing customers, which take into account voice and video over IP and, in one case, offer 100 per cent credits for broken promises - though...
Bharti Infotel, a subsidiary of Bharti Tele-Ventures, one of four major telecom providers in India, announced on Wednesday that it has chosen Cisco to be the main equipment supplier to build its IP-based multiprotocol label switching (MPLS) network.