Who wins the PBT/MPLS wars? Quite likely neither, because the fight may change how networks move data.

Exploring network redundancy across MPLS, SD-WAN, and SASE To achieve network availability, redundancy is important: it ensures that the business can continue operating smoothly even during an outage.

MPLS has been a frequent topic of conversation in this newsletter (see below for examples of MPLS issues we discussed last year) and today we return to the subject to examine what is motivating ...

Perhaps the most important MPLS evolution will be MPLS Transport Profile (MPLS-TP), an MPLS expansion that is tailored for optical and transport networks. Andrew Malis, a member of the IETF’s ...

Mission-critical applications that require high SLAs get priority over the MPLS network, but lower-priority traffic, such as web browsing and email, is routed over SD-WAN.

Compared to traditional networks, SD-WAN dedicated lines are more like an "intelligent navigation system" that can monitor network quality in real-time, automatically switch to the optimal path (such ...

To put it another way, with MPLS, you can bring the advantages of a connection-oriented network (telephony, for example) to connectionless networks (Internet). But MPLS is not just about IP.

The survey shows enterprises aren't happy with MPLS and SD-WAN for these new use cases. Network architects gave both technologies D's and F's for metrics such as scalability, agility, and cost.

As MPLS and SD-WAN were failing, firms were turning to network edge as-a-service (NaaS). The survey found that many aspects of enterprise computing have already moved to as-a-service.

On Thursday, VeloCloud Networks announced it had struck a deal with communications provider MetTel to deliver SD-WAN capabilities over the cloud into MetTel’s SD-WAN and MPLS services.