AT&T was awarded a $5 million contract to build an MPLS-based VPN solution for Booz Allen Hamilton Inc., a strategy and technology consulting firm with more than 14,000 employees across six continents. AT&T packaged a secure VPN that integrates multiple services, including IP-enabled Frame Relay and ATM services, DSL-to-Frame Relay, and leased-line access connecting directly to the AT&T global IP backbone.
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AT&T To Build MPLS VPN for Booz Allen
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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.
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