Bell Canada has selected the Cisco 12000 Series routers to serve as the foundation platform for its single, converged IP/MPLS service delivery network. Bell Canada will converge Internet, ATM, Frame Relay, Ethernet and VPN services onto a common IP/MPLS core and edge network infrastructure. Financial terms were not disclosed. http://www.cisco.com
Bell Canada Selects Cisco 12000 Routers for IP/MPLS Backbone
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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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