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- Four Steps to True End-to-End Service for MPLS IP VPNs
- Multi-protocol Layer Switching MPLS VPNs are the ideal solution for medium and large enterprises that currently deploy site-to-site VPN services. MPLS technology provides sophisticated traffic engineering capabilities that, coupled with IP QoS, enable multiple classes and levels of service. MPLS ensures that business-critical applications and services are treated with higher...
- Tags: MPLS, Computer Associates International Inc., MPLS Technology, Network Technology, Networking
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- Outsourcing a Global MPLS Network
- There are 214 Hyatt hotels and resorts around the world, which are managed by two separate groups of companies. Hyatt International needed a global network integrator that could provide it with a turnkey solution but was doubtful that it could find one company that could do all that it needed....
- Tags: Telstra Corp., Hotel, MPLS, Network, Hyatt Hotels & Resorts, Outsourcing, Networking
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- In Search of an Edge MPLS Router
- Tele2 is Scandinavia's largest alternate carrier, with a network operation spanning the Nordic region, the Baltic States, Eastern, Central and Southern Europe. To provide the best possible service offerings for their business customers, ensuring high performance and 99.999% availability, Tele2 Sweden conducted a search for a Provider Edge PE router...
- Tags: Router, MPLS, Redback Networks Inc., Tele2, Routers & Switches, Network Technology, Networking
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- Utfors: Metro Broadband Services Using Gigabit Ethernet
- Utfors supplies the Nordic market's most cost-effective, high-quality broadband communication services, based on next-generation IP networks. Focusing primarily on the corporate market, Utfors aims to be one of the leading suppliers of broadband-based communications services in the Nordic countries. Focusing primarily on the corporate market, Utfors' strategy is to be...
- Tags: Broadband Service, MPLS, Broadband, IP, Gigabit Ethernet, Utfors, Ethernet, Network Technology, Networking, Broadband Internet, Telecommunications
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- Customized MPLS Training Meets Tight Time Demand for Canadian Network Solutions Provider
- Headquartered in Canada, the NSP designs, implements, and maintains narrowband and broadband consolidated voice, data, and video networks for some of the world's leading carriers and service providers, often under extremely tight timeframes. NSP's team of ten network engineers and administrators needed to develop immediate expertise in MPLS technology. In...
- Tags: Network Solutions Inc., Global Knowledge Network Inc., MPLS, NSP, Network Technology, Networking
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- MPLS-Based Managed Virtual Private Network: Jones Lang LaSalle
- Jones Lang LaSalle, a leading global provider of real estate and investment-management services to owners, occupiers and investors, has replaced a diverse collection of network solutions with a single MPLS-based managed Virtual Private Network VPN from MCI. The European infrastructure has been transformed, enhancing productivity, dramatically cutting costs and supporting...
- Tags: MCI Inc., MPLS, Infrastructure, Networking, VPNs, Network Technology, Network Security, Telecommunications
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- MPLS Interoperability Testing Case Study
- iLabs demonstrated the latest solutions to real engineering challenges in a live, vendor-neutral, standard-based arena. One of the focus areas of iLabs Spring 2001 was MPLS. The iLabs is built with the cooperation of vendor companies, and expert engineers in their fields. The iLabs test event explored some of the...
- Tags: Interoperability, MPLS, iLabs Spring 2001, Network Technology, Networking
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- BT Group - MPLS-Based IP VPNs Built on Cisco IOS Software Enable Streamlined and "Applications-Aware" Enterprise Network Services
- BT Group is recognized as one of the leading providers of data networking services in Europe. Companies with branch offices in different regions and countries had to create multiple, expensive network solutions to interconnect and extend there corporate networks. BT Global Services worked closely with Cisco Systems to become the...
- Tags: Software, Aware, IP VPN, Cisco IOS, MPLS, Network, Cisco IOS Software, IP, Enterprise Network, Cisco Systems Inc., BT Group Plc., BT MPLS, Networking, Network Technology
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- Jones Lang Lasalle Exploits MCI's Managed MPLS-Based IP VPN Service to Global Advantage
- Jones Lang LaSalle is a leading global provider of real-estate and investment management services to owners, occupiers and investors. They wanted to achieve a standardised global network infrastructure to enable global data sharing, including the roll out of centralised, Citrix-supported applications. Jones Lang LaSalle also wanted to reduce network-related costs....
- Tags: MCI Inc., IP VPN, MPLS, Network, IP, Cisco Systems Inc., Jones Lang Lasalle, Network Technology, Networking
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- Tasman Networks Case Study: MASERGY
- Based in Dallas, Texas, MASERGY is a privately-held company that provides outsourced network services over its own MultiProtocol Label Switching MPLS-based network to hundreds of medium to large businesses in the U.S. and multi-national companies around the world. When MASERGY began selling its services, the network service provider offered two...
- Tags: Tasman Networks, PPP, QoS, MPLS, Network, Network Service, Frame Relay, Networking, Network Technology
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- An Introduction to GlobalOpenEthernet (GOE)
- Many carriers and service providers are rushing to provide Ethernet-based VPN services in metro area networks MANs as a cost effective means of addressing the needs of the enterprise net-work market. There are three packet-based switching approaches used to build a cost-effective VPN solution in a MAN: Resilient Packet Ring,...
- Tags: MPLS, Provisioning, EoMPLS, VPNs, Ethernet, Networking, Network Security, Network Technology, Telecommunications, Security
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- Cisco Enables Equant to Meet End-User Requirements With MPLS-Based VPN
- Equant, a member of the France Telecom Group, meets the diverse needs of multinational companies with the industry's most extensive portfolio of managed network and communications infrastructure services. Equant has been offering data communications services to enterprise customers for more than 50 years. With a presence in more than 220...
- Tags: Equant, MPLS, Cisco Systems Inc., VPNs, Networking, Network Technology
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- Cutting Through the Complexity of Multi-Protocol Label Switching (MPLS) Performance
- Multi-Protocol Label Switching MPLS has gained attention as organizations look for new ways to lower the cost, extend the scalability, improve the reliability and secure their network data, however, these gains are offset by a lack of visibility into the detailed information needed for troubleshooting and traffic engineering networks. This...
- Tags: Performance, MPLS, Network, Network Technology, Networking
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- Virgin Entertainment and Hannaford Bros. Co. Increase Store-Level Productivity and Communications With Cisco's Intelligent Retail Network
- Virgin Entertainment Group operates 18 Virgin Megastores in the United States that provide thousands of customers with experiential, interactive shopping through in-store appearances by major entertainment artists, a wide variety of music and DVD media and games, highly available store personnel and cutting-edge shopping technologies. To help achieve this goal...
- Tags: Virgin Entertainment, MPLS, Network, Cisco Systems Inc., Virgin Entertainment Group, Networking
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- True Leads Business Network Convergence With Launch of "MPLS Data Networking Solution" Over Cisco IP NGN
- True Corp. Plc., Thailand's only fully integrated communication solutions provider and convergence solutions leader offers innovative and efficient communication technologies and services to meet their corporate customers' requirement in integrated communication with an ability to support converged services in the future. True expanded its services portfolio for corporate and Small...
- Tags: Small And Medium Enterprise, MPLS, Network, Cisco Systems Inc., Convergence, Smb/Sme, Network Technology, Networking
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- State Street Corporation Banks on a High-Availability MPLS Network
- With $10.1 trillion in assets under custody, State Street Corporation is recognized as the leading servicer of U.S. mutual funds and pension plans. The company wanted to deploy a network architecture that would ensure high availability and also help them control costs, improve end users' experiences, and allow them to...
- Tags: Bank, MPLS, Network, Network Technology, Networking
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- Service Management for MPLS Enabled IP VPN
- The client is a leading US data networking equipment vendor. The customer manufactures core routers for data networks. It was looking to create an MPLS service-provisioning interface for VPN, that could interact with existing as well as third party products. A team of 4 engineers, well versed in the requirements...
- Tags: IP VPN, Service Management, MPLS, Client, IP, Data Networking, Network Technology, Networking
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- Troubleshooting Application Performance Issues Across an MPLS Network
- The network management team at ABC Services had a major problem: their frame-relay managed service could no longer effectively support their expanding number of branch offices, which had recently passed 500. Faced with out-of-control bandwidth costs and a complete inability to defend the network against blame for virtually every application...
- Tags: Team, Network Physics, Performance, MPLS, Network, Network Management, Team Management, Networking, Management
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- IP Convergence: Reducing Capital and Operational Costs
- Adoption of IP telephony - and convergence as a whole - has been slow. The overriding barrier is that the benefits have not been clearly stated. This case study aims to demonstrate the cost savings that are possible when a company decides to switch to a convergent solution - a...
- Tags: Solution, MPLS, IP, Convergence, Cable And Wireless Plc., Network Technology, Networking, VOIP, Telecommunications
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- Overcoming Single-Provider MPLS Limitations
- This white paper by Stratecast Partners explores the limitations of MPLS (multi-protocol label switching) networks and the implications those shortcomings have for enterprise computing. Discover how Virtela, a Virtual Network Operator VNO, uses its MPLS Service Fabric model and Regional Policy Centers to establish logical and dynamic connections across multiple...
- Tags: MPLS, Network Technology, Networking
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