MPLS Service Providers

April 30, 2011 Aerocom

 

  • Definition: Multi-Protocol Label Switching (MPLS), (also called a private IP VPN), is a private, IP-based, wide area network (WAN), service that connects two or more sites. Speed can range from 1M+.
  • Best fit: Companies with 3+ sites, needing to communicate real-time and/or large amounts of data between locations. Also ideal for companies with 3+ sites that want to consolidate all voice, Internet and WAN connectivity onto the same access circuit.
  • Benefits:
    • Higher priority traffic runs faster and cleaner. Class of service (CoS), and quality of service (QoS), network-wide routing.
    • Faster Network Speeds. Private network requiring zero encryption bottlenecks.
    • Less chance of downtime. One site sees all sites, allowing for more opportunities for redundancy routing.
  • Available Features with Select Providers:
    • Internet Access on same circuit.
    • SIP or TDM Voice on same circuit.
    • Managed Routers
    • MPLS over DSL
    • Application Performance Management (APM)
    • WAN Optimization Hardware
    • BGP Routing
    • Network Firewall
    • Automatic IP-VPN Failover Routing
    • Remotely IP-VPN directly into the MPLS, rather than one site.
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