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 ...

You may not be familiar with the term Multiprotocol Label Switching (MPLS); however, it is a technology that that will find a way into your facility in the not-too-distant future, if not already ...

Editor's Note: To view a PDF version of this article, Click Here. Multiprotocol label-switching (MPLS) technology is about to take off. As the most widely used MPLS routers, label edge routers (LERs) ...

Denver — Motorola Computer Group and NTT Corp. of Japan have jointly proposed a multicast version of the multiprotocol label switching standard, and the Internet Engineering Task Force has agreed to ...

Over the past few days, a long-simmering disagreement between the ITU-T and the IETF over a management protocol for telecom-operator networks erupted into the open. The technology at the heart of the ...

MPLS – or Multiprotocol Label Switching – has been one of the big tech success stories of the past decade. And yet, it’s become rather difficult to find an explanation written in layman’s terms for ...

I explained in the previous post how the RSVP-TE Explicit Route Object (ERO) specifies the path of an MPLS LSP by means of a sequenced list of Label Switching Routers (LSRs) that the LSP must pass ...

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 ...

Like any significant business decision, a number of qualifying factors usually drive a potential migration to MPLS. Several common reasons are: Converged services capabilities (voice, video, data).