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) ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...