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What's Next for MPLS?

Network World: Multiprotocol Label Switching has been without a doubt one of the most successful technologies of the past decade. The advantages of MPLS are many: in addition to protocol neutrality, MPLS is highly scalable and can intelligently route time-sensitive voice and video packets through low-latency routes throughout the network. Because of these key features MPLS has been widely adopted by enterprises for their WANs, as the most recent data from Nemertes Research indicates that around 84% of companies are now using MPLS for their WANs.

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Reliance Globalcom Named a Leader of Global Business Ethernet Services by Vertical Systems Group

BUSINESS WIRE--Reliance Globalcom, a leading global provider of managed network and communication services for multinational enterprises, carriers and consumers, today announced it has secured a leading position on Vertical Systems Group’s Global Business Ethernet Leaderboard. The Leaderboard focuses on the global service footprint of network service providers, providing rank in terms of the number of international Ethernet port installations at enterprise customer sites as of mid-2009.

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Global Crossing expands global Ethernet product suite

FierceTelecom: By adding global VPLS capabilities to its EtherSphere WAN transport portfolio, Global Crossing is tapping into a market opportunity that Ovum Research says will increase from $1.3 billion in 2008 to $8.4 billion in 2014. Global Crossing's suit of EtherSphere services will include three new offerings: EtherSphere Multipoint-to-Multipoint, EtherSphere Point-to-Multipoint and EtherSphere Point-to-Point services. These services are available to both enterprise and wholesale carrier customers in North America, the U.K., Asia and Latin America.

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Broadband Forum and IP/MPLS Forum unite

Telecommunications Online: At its second quarter meeting in Valencia, Spain yesterday, the Broadband Forum announced the creation of a worldwide organization through its union with the IP/MPLS Forum (IP Multi Protocol Label Switching).

Ciena adds MPLS, HVPLS to Ethernet aggregator

TelephonyOnline: Ciena added support for routing technologies to its carrier Ethernet aggregation switch today, while unveiling three other carrier Ethernet products.

7 reasons MPLS has been wildly successful

Network World: The IETF Thursday threw a birthday party for one of its most successful standards: Multi-Protocol Label Switching.

Telovations Launches Nationwide Managed MPLS Network - Expanding Service Throughout the U.S.

Send2Press: Telovations Inc., a leading provider of hosted voice services to business customers, today announced it has expanded the Telovations Real-Time Network(SM) throughout the U.S. with the launch of a nationwide flat-rate Managed MPLS Network. The Managed MPLS Network will provide the necessary backbone for Telovations to expand its outsourced communications solutions to business customers that also require a wide area network for connectivity between branch

Integra Telecom Rolls Out VPN Service Based on MPLS Technology

TMCnet: Integra Telecom today introduced VPN Solutions, an Internet Protocol Virtual Private Network (IP-VPN) offering providing a secure, multi-site, private network telecommunications service, and Network Solutions, a secure private network transport service.

Telekom Malaysia selects Alcatel-Lucent to expand its existing 10 Gigabit Ethernet network

The FINANCIAL -- Alcatel-Lucent (Euronext Paris and NYSE: ALU) on March 24 announced that it has been awarded a 7 million Euro contract for the expansion of Telekom Malaysia’s (TM) 10 Gigabit Ethernet network.

AT&T Goes Global With Ethernet VPLS

TelecomWeb:AT&T now is offering its Ethernet-based virtual private local area network service (VPLS) in 14 countries across Europe and AsiaPac. First offered in the United States, AT&T’s service now can be purchases in Germany, the U.K., Belgium, France, Netherlands, Sweden, Ireland, Italy, Spain..

Ericsson joins T-MPLS packet-optical crowd

FierceTelecom: Packet-optical transport has been one of the hottest and most actively debated telecom technology segments of the last 18 months. The initial fascination with provider backbone transport (PBT, also called provider backbone bridging-traffic engineering in the standards world) has faded a bit, as transport-multiprotocol label switching (T-MPLS, also called MPLS-transport profile for standards purposes) has picked up steam. Now, after companies such as Fujitsu, Ciena, Tellabs, Nokia Siemens Networks, Nortel Networks, Alcatel-Lucent and others have been busy parsing out acronym advantages, Ericsson is finally set to join the packet-optical market with a new platform.

Foundry unveils line of Carrier Ethernet switches

Network World: Foundry Networks this week unleashed a series of Carrier Ethernet edge/aggregation switches designed to scale Ethernet services while reducing the burden on MPLS routers.

Foundry is unveiling six 1RU Carrier Ethernet switches under the NetIron CES 2000 brand. The switches feature 24- or 48-port gigabit Ethernet copper or fiber interfaces with optional dual 10 Gigabit Ethernet uplinks. The switches support the IEEE 802.1ad Provider Bridge (PB) and 802.1ah Provider Backbone Bridging (PBB) standards for scaling multipoint Ethernet services by hiding media access control (MAC) addresses.

XO enhances Ethernet

TelephonyOnline: XO Communications today announced enhancements to its Ethernet product portfolio intended to extend the reach of its copper-based Ethernet offering and make higher speeds more affordable to its customer base.

Tracking NetFlow over MPLS helps airline with compliance

SearchNetworking.com: Using network behavioral analysis technology to track NetFlow data over an MPLS WAN is helping AirTran Airways with compliance of the network monitoring requirements of the Payment Card Industry (PCI) Data Security Standard (DSS).

NXTcomm: Alcatel-Lucent collects carrier contracts, acquires Motive

FierceTelecom: Alcatel-Lucent had a big day Tuesday, announcing at NXTcomm some major carrier deals and a new technology development involving provider backbone bridging, and separately unveiling the acquisition of Motive for about $68 million. The carrier contracts included a $1 billion deal with China Mobile to provide the carrier with TD-SCDMA gear and other equipment for its 3G build-out; an IP-MPLS deployment project with U.S. independent telco Embarq; and a IP service router contract with BT. The China Mobile deal comes shortly after Alca-Lu also announced a contract with leading wireline carrier China Telecom.