Nortel Networks has filled a gap in its portfolio of Internet Protocol networking products with the announcement of a new router designed to help carriers deliver voice, video and data services over a ...

In our last newsletter, we continued the discussion of MPLS service-level agreements that we started in late April.The focus of the last newsletter was a description of how service providers typically ...

THE HAGUE, Netherlands — Lumina Networks, the company that purchased Brocade’s SDN controller, is partnering with NoviFlow, a vendor of OpenFlow-based switching, to offer an alternative to MPLS-based ...

A new telecommunications protocol is on the rise that will enable integrators to lower their costs and give government customers greater control over their voice and data networks. Although ...

I always wanted to create a headline without words. This is my chance. You have heard of Multi-Protocol Label Switching (MPLS), but Virtual Private LAN Service (VPLS) may be new to you. MPLS has been ...

Multisite and outsourced IT operations are making good use of Multiprotocol Label Switching (MPLS), but strange trouble is turning up more and more. Often in discussion with local network staffers, we ...

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 ...

I usually file things like this under "duh", but a recent conversation with a network architect made me think that it's worth noting in public space. I recently had a problem related to dynamic route ...

Nortel Networks announces a new router designed to help carriers deliver voice, video and data services over a single network. Marguerite Reardon started as a CNET News reporter in 2004, covering ...