Today, I had the opportunity to speak with an industry analyst about several topics. Mostly he was gushing about multiprotocol label switching (MPLS). The future is MPLS, a standard developed by the ...

Traffic analysis vendor Network Physics last week announced it added Multi-protocol Label Switching support to its flagship appliance – and just in time, according to a recent survey that says MPLS ...

In the last newsletter, we discussed the inconvenience of router misconfiguration and the percentage of problems it causes for outages in IP-based networks. In order to look at the security impact of ...

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 ...

Despite the hype generated by SD-WAN and secure access service edge (SASE), multipath label switching (MPLS) remains a top enterprise WAN option. According to the research firm IMARC Group, the ...

Wide-area networks connecting organisations' sites using a technology called MPLS - short for Multi-Protocol Label Switching - aren't as popular as recent headlines would have us believe. That's the ...

With the ever growing demand for bandwidth primarily being driven by the wireless-mobile market, the communication equipment suppliers are on a quest to transform the existing cell-based grid into ...

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 ...