Gateway Business, a Vodacom Group company, has selected Cisco for a national MPLS network. Gateway Business is rolling out wireless broadband services across 36 different states in 2010 and 2011.
Gateway Communications, the groups Carrier Services and Wholesale division, is also an investor in the West Africa Cable System (WACS), which will bring additional capacity in to Nigeria by June 2011. Through this agreement with Cisco, Gateway will be able to immediately deploy a range of new services for customers in Nigeria, West Africa, and across the African continent. http://www.cisco.com
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You just read about MPLS. Here is what it replaced:
Frame Relay served 1990–2010. What ultimately replaced it?
Frame Relay switched variable-length frames over pre-provisioned permanent virtual circuits, dropping X.25's per-hop error correction (links were now clean) and pushing recovery to the endpoints for far higher throughput. Its job passed to MPLS — but the problem it solved, and the ideas it proved, live on in what replaced it. The standard rests here in the archive. One of 198 technologies here that opened a door and then held it for the next.
