MPLS configs.. Networks section needs stepping up a little

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Getting bored of reading about home routers

MPLS:
Who's using it?
for what?
Running on what?
Did it solve your issues? / what were you alternatives in solving this problem and are you happy you went with MPLS.

Should make interesting (if not incredibly geeky) reading.

Cheers guys.
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We use it. about 10 temp sites linked with adsl managed mpls routers and 3 leased lines at 3 main sites. We have an internet breakout in london and it all works very nicely. No really big issues to report other than slow internet speeds due to only having a tiny outbreak between so many sites. QOS works nicely to keep out citrix traffic resonably fast. Bit late to go into much detail!

Know the feeling, I'm about to hit some decent alcohol
Cheers for the info, always interesting to know of other deployments.
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Who's using it?

Anyone who realises the advantage of having a guaranteed, managed end to end connection with one to many different sites within a business. Whether they be local, regional or international

for what?

MPLS is a carrier mechanism and can support many different frame types, it is typically used to create scalable, private, secure networks for the transfer of latency sensitive data such as voice, video and interactive applications such as citrix.

Running on what?

Being a carrier method you can hop on the back of an MPLS network using pretty much any access technology, ADSL, SDSL, Ethernet, Leased Line, ISDN etc

End to end connectivity is pretty transparent to the customer.


Did it solve your issues? / what were you alternatives in solving this problem and are you happy you went with MPLS.


We have recently put it forward for one of our customers and works brilliantly, it can be a lengthy learning process getting you head around the idea of how it all comes together but isn't overly complicated. It has been proven time and again to be a highly effective method of communication for modern NG Networks.

A close alternative to MPLS is traditionally WAN connectivity combined with any to any meshed VPN's but in this scenario you don't get QoS guarantees end to end.


http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Multiprotocol_Label_Switching

I think you missed my point, i'm well aware what it is/how it is used, I was just bored and wanted to hear from people here advanced in networking enough to be involved with it's running, and just out of interest see what size deployments / what vendor hw is being used.
Should have explained myself better, but i'm sure you're post will help many confused people reading this thread

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