Helio, the U.S. mobile operator backed by SK Telecom,
has selected Foundry Networks’ 10GbE NetIron MLX-16 MPLS metro routers and FastIron GS Power over Ethernet (PoE)-ready Layer 2/3 edge switches to power their mobile service over a nationwide high-speed 3G network. Foundry’s NetIron MLX-16 routers and FastIron GS switches are being used to deliver and manage the mobile multimedia content that Helio members create, consume and share. Financial terms were not disclosed.http://www.foundrynet.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.
