In the last newsletter, we discussed the inconvenience of router misconfiguration and the percentage of problems it causes for outages in IP-based networks. In order to look at the security impact of ...

Plans to deploy virtual private networks using a new technology have sparked recent controversy, with the debate illustrating the need for technology managers to tune in to different ways carriers ...

After years of criticizing a technology known as multiprotocol label switching, the long-distance carrier succumbs to market pressure and will offer MPLS virtual private networks. Marguerite Reardon ...

There are a few cases for using MPLS — but most have moved on from multiprotocol label switching and found a cheaper, more flexible solution. Multiprotocol label switching (MPLS) is a network ...