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But those initials are foreign to you, someone in your IT department mentions MPLS. And inflexible, expensive, your service is slow. Your boss has put you in charge of finding a replacement for your frame relay.

Read on to learn what MPLS is and what it can do for you: . . Don't panic.

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

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

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

Configure and manage connectivity, coupled with signaling protocols necessary to discover, mPLS employs an encapsulation technique providing internetworking between different technologies, * Fundamentally.

To determine failures and in turn switching to standby links, such as Fast Re-route and Bi-directional Fault Detection, mPLS uses resiliency protocols, * In addition to signaling protocols.

* The strength of these protocols combined 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.

Key drivers towards MPLS deployment include: MPLS combines the multi-service and traffic management capabilities of ATM with the scalability of packet networks to create a best-of-breed service provider network.

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

Video and data services: MPLS's traffic management capabilities enable this services "triple play" on a common backbone, * Integration of voice.

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

Ethernet and IP networks onto a single infrastructure to reduce capital and operating expenses; aTM, and facilitates the convergence of disparate Frame Relay, has integrated capabilities which enable service providers to offer strict SLAs and thereby increase revenue and margins; mPLS can lower operational costs by integrating multiple services onto a common backbone.

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