Multi-Protocol Label Switching (MPLS) is the fastest growing wide area networking (WAN) technology and is widely used by leading carriers around the world. That's because it provides the performance and privacy of legacy WAN technologies, like frame relay, combined with the flexibility and cost advantages of Internet-based networks, like IPsec VPNs.
One of our service partners MegaPath has been offering MPLS VPNs since 2000 and has over 20,000 customer sites using its service, so their experience and expertise delivering this advanced networking technology is second to none. Megapth’s wide selection of access technologies, including Private DSL, cable, wireless, satellite, T1s, and DS3s, allows them to offer the 'best fit' and lowest cost connectivity for each site. As a component of Megapath’s security portfolio, this service can be combined with a complete suite of Managed Security services and Remote Access VPNs to create a complete enterprise-wide solution. MegaPath can even extend the reach of your MPLS VPN to sites connected over the public Internet using IPsec tunneling to connect your suppliers, distributors, customers and business partners into an expansive extranet as seen in the illustration below.
This advanced technology enables your data to traverse the entire network in a single "hop," eliminating the performance degradation and loss associated with memory-intensive routing decisions. MPLS routing creates a fully meshed network topology with multiple paths between any two sites (versus a hub-and-spoke topology) and automatically forwards your data via the optimal path. So, your traffic gets delivered fast without any bottlenecks or single points of failure. This makes MPLS ideal for supporting performance-sensitive applications, like VoIP and videoconferencing.
In support of time sensitive applications like VoIP and video conferencing, a Site-to-Site MPLS VPN service enables you to consolidate all of your business applications onto a single private network, with up to five Classes of Services, built-in security and a wide selection of access technologies for maximum performance and flexibility. An MPLS routing infrastructure provides Quality of Service (QoS), ensuring business-critical applications like Voice over IP (VoIP) and enterprise solutions are prioritized for the highest level of quality.
Using the example provided by our service partner Megapath above a fully managed MPLS solution provides true end-to-end prioritization of multiple networked applications. Quality of Service (QoS) classifies and prioritizes your network traffic into as many as 5 classes of services. A typical design may include separate classes for real-time applications, such as Voice over IP (VoIP), mission and business-critical traffic, such as email applications, and data traffic for all other non-critical transactions. QoS is enabled not only at the circuit level but also throughout the entire MPLS network, preventing vital applications from failing due to network congestion and utilization spikes.
Separate traffic into as many as five Classes of Service:
- Real-time 1: For MegaPath's VoIP service and customer VoIP traffic
- Real-time 2: For customer video conferencing traffic
- Data 1: For mission-critical data, like financial transactions, credit card data, etc.
- Data 2: For enterprise applications like SAP, Oracle, video surveillance, etc.
- Data 3: For low priority traffic such as Internet web browsing, FTP, etc.
Because MPLS is highly scalable and less complex than its predecessors, businesses gain more flexibility, less overhead and improved control over network costs. MPLS makes it easy to reroute traffic priorities on the fly, or add new locations to the network whenever you need.
- Prioritize/optimize voice, video and data applications
- Fit MPLS in your budget with T1 and/or DSL
- Reduce transit delays and transaction times
- Divert traffic around link failures and network congestion
- Add new locations quickly
- Enhance security and simplify disaster recovery
- Streamline network implementation and management
- Share a network-based Internet access port without provisioning separate access circuits
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