In our last newsletter, we continued the discussion of MPLS service-level agreements that we started in late April.The focus of the last newsletter was a description of how service providers typically ...

Nortel Networks has filled a gap in its portfolio of Internet Protocol networking products with the announcement of a new router designed to help carriers deliver voice, video and data services over a ...

With the MPLS implementations I've done the cisco routers IOS train have just had to support BGP. We're using some 6-7 year old 3640's for MPLS circuits. Your carrier may have a list of supported ...

THE HAGUE, Netherlands — Lumina Networks, the company that purchased Brocade’s SDN controller, is partnering with NoviFlow, a vendor of OpenFlow-based switching, to offer an alternative to MPLS-based ...

We're in the process of switching to a new MPLS provider. With our old provider, we used point-to-point IP addresses between our CE and the PE in the RFC 1918 range. We also used only BGP AS numbers ...

Multisite and outsourced IT operations are making good use of Multiprotocol Label Switching (MPLS), but strange trouble is turning up more and more. Often in discussion with local network staffers, we ...

I usually file things like this under "duh", but a recent conversation with a network architect made me think that it's worth noting in public space. I recently had a problem related to dynamic route ...

In a recent newsletter entitled “Beware of MPLS service agreements” we commented that we had reviewed the service-level agreements of some of the major suppliers of MPLS-based services. We pointed out ...