Spencer Stuart, a global executive search firm with over 50 offices in 25 countries, awarded a 3-year, $5.6 million IP VPN contract extension to Equant for high-end IP VPN services. Equant’s classes of service allow Spencer to prioritize its mission-critical applications, including proprietary software used for secure transmission of classified executive dossiers. http://www.equant.com
Equant Signs $5.6M MPLS VPN Contract with Spencer Stuart
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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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