Multi-protocol label switching (MPLS) deployments to date have been focused on providing traffic engineering and network-based IP virtual private network (VPN) capabilities to IP core networks, and to ...

Multi Protocol Label Switching (MPLS) brings several benefits to Internet Protocol networks, including increased packet forwarding performance, traffic engineering mechanisms to maximize resource ...

I’ve written several posts on different aspects of MPLS: How the FEC is key to the separation of control and forwarding functions in MPLS, the difference between implicit and explicit null labels, how ...

MPLS also offered a way to “cap-and-grow” legacy network technology, in particular, Frame Relay, ATM and SONET. This allowed some SPs to upsell an enterprise offering of point-to-point Frame Relay ...