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 ...

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) ...

Well, universally, telecommunications service providers are searching for next-generation data networks. These new networks will focus on offering value-added services to users—especially corporate ...

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 ...

The Internet Engineering Task Force (IETF) on Thursday threw a birthday party for one of its most successful standards: Multi-Protocol Label Switching. The Internet’s leading standards body hosted a ...

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 ...

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 wrote in the previous post about how the Resource Reservation Protocol with Traffic Engineering extensions (RSVP-TE), in addition to being an MPLS label distribution protocol, is also an MPLS ...