Recently, a reader wrote to tell me about the big relief he felt when he bought a Layer 3 MPLS VPN service. With such a site-to-site service, one option is to peer the WAN routers at customer sites ...

One of the most compelling drivers for MPLS in service provider networks is its support for Virtual Private Networks (VPNs), in which the provider’s customers can connect geographically diverse sites ...

Since there's been data networking, there's been a debate between switched and routed architectures-stated in OSI terms, between performing functions at Layer 2 or Layer 3. As technologies change, the ...

Plans to deploy virtual private networks using a new technology have sparked recent controversy, with the debate illustrating the need for technology managers to tune in to different ways carriers ...

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Plans to deploy virtual private networks using a new technology have sparked recent controversy, with the debate illustrating the need for technology managers to tune in to different ways carriers ...

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 ...

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We currently have a private 2mbps circuit between two sites and we're replacing it with a 20mbps VPN connection. The new circuit is in and I've been doing some testing to ensure it's stable and so on, ...

DENVER — As extensions to the multiprotocol label switching standard make MPLS viable for virtual private network transport, experts are warning against taking the protocol too far, too fast. MPLS is ...