It’s funny how things come in waves. For most of last year the majority of my consulting engagements concerned IPv6 in some way or another. But over the past month and a half most of my time has been ...

What is Multiprotocol Label Switching (MPLS)? Multiprotocol Label Switching (MPLS) is a switching mechanism used in wide area networks (WANs). MPLS uses labels instead of network addresses to route ...

I’ve written several posts on different aspects of MPLS: How the FEC is key to the separation of control and forwarding functions in MPLS, the difference between implicit and explicit null labels, how ...

Some network vendors have been positioning SD WAN vs. MPLS as the ultimate solution to any network issue. They’re selling SD WAN, or software-defined wide area network, as a revolutionary box that ...

MPLS VPN is one of the most efficient VPN infrastructures that allows the usage of multiple protocol switching techniques to provide its services. It primarily consists of a number of sites that are ...

Multiprotocol Label Switching is designed to forward packets through a network with extremely high performance by adding a label to packets as they enter the network at edge routers. Normally, every ...