Just what MPLS is, what to do and where Can You Get It?

Your boss has asked you to find a replacement for your frame relay. Your service is slow, expensive and inflexible. Someone in your IT department mentions MPLS, but those initials are foreign to you.

Do not panic ... read on to learn what MPLS is and what it can do for you:

* Multi-Protocol Label Switching (MPLS) was invented to solve the problem of bridging multiple disparate protocols such as Frame Relay, ATM and Ethernet.

* Over the last few years, MPLS has won the battle within core networks and has become the dominant internetworking technology.

* Carriers have deployed IP / MPLS core routers to support existing legacy networks more cost effectively.

* Fundamentally, MPLS employs an encapsulation technique that provides internetworking between different technologies, together with signaling protocols necessary to discover, configure and manage connectivity.

* In addition to signaling protocols, MPLS uses resiliency protocols, such as fast Fault Detection Re-route and Bi-directional, to determine faults and, in turn, the transition to standby links.

* The strength of these protocols in combination with the popularity of MPLS core networks have made MPLS a logical choice for extending into metro networks.

* Vendors have responded by creating MPLS-enabled multi-service platforms with a mixture of legacy port options.

MPLS combines the multi-services and traffic management of ATM with the scalability of packet networks to create a best-of-breed service provider's network. Key factors to MPLS deployment include:

* Cost reduction through data network convergence: MPLS facilitates the convergence of disparate Frame Relay, ATM, Ethernet and IP networks onto a single infrastructure to reduce capital and operating expenses.

* Integration of voice, video and data services: MPLS Traffic management capabilities enable this services "triple play" on a common backbone.

* New high-margin revenue opportunities through MPLS MPLS-based service offering: flexibility, high availability and multi-service support enables service providers to offer strict SLAs, increasing revenue and margins.

MPLS can lower operational costs by integrating multiple services on a common backbone, has integrated features that allow service providers to offer strict SLAs and, therefore, increase revenue and margins, and facilitates the convergence of disparate Frame Relay, ATM, Ethernet and IP networks onto a single infrastructure to reduce fixed costs and variable.

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