Multi-Protocol Label Switching and Your Business

Is your business buried in data and multi-site system breakdowns that can shut down all of your systems? Do you need a way to share large volumes of data in real time across multiple geographical locations? Are you looking for a way to put your voice, WAN and internet connectivity across the same circuit?

If this is what your company needs, then a multi-protocol label switching (MPLS) might just be your answer. What is MPLS? It is a wide area network (WAN) that is IP-based, private and connects at least two sites and is capable of many more. Your network speeds will increase as you move to a private network and have fewer data bottlenecks.

Most MPLS networks can take advantage of a wide variety of access methods including DSL, T1, E1, DS3, Ethernet and Fiber. This works because the network assigns labels to data packets on your network. Instead of having to read the data itself, the network system reads only the label and makes decisions based on the labels. This speeds up your network dramatically and can save your business both time and money as it increases productivity and reduces system down time.

Of course there are advantages and disadvantage to this technology just as there are for any network system. The speed and lack of downtime is a major advantage along with the ability of your network to support a variety of service models, manage you data traffic and solid recovery packages. The only real disadvantage is the increase in cost over a IP-Sec VPN.

These systems can work in conjunction with your IP and your internet routing protocols. The advantage here is that in a regular IP environment, data will take the shortest path to its destination regardless of how crowded and congested that path becomes. When you add a network, your system will reroute by labels around the bottlenecks and get your priority information where it needs to be in real time as fast as possible.

If your current multi-site real time data system is bogging down, we’ll find an MPLS Provider that just might be the cure for your IT ailments.