The GWR Group, a radio broadcaster that operates 31 FM stations across the U.K., is using THUS’ national MPLS network to multicast commercial audio broadcasts to its various facilities. The 31-site network forms the backbone of GWR’s operation, carrying “traditional” applications such as e-mail, Internet and file transfer as well as broadcast traffic. It also consolidates legacy voice, data and broadcast networks.
THUS plc said it had won a £3 million contract to provide the MPLS-based connectivity to GWR over a five year period. http://www.thus.co.uk/
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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.
