Singapore Telecommunications (SingTel) selected Juniper Networks to expand the SingTel Internet Exchange (STiX), one of Asia’s largest Internet backbone access networks. The carrier is using
Juniper Networks M20 and M40e routing platforms and has also upgraded existing M-series platforms with new interface cards. Financial terms were not disclosed. http://www.juniper.net
SingTel Selects Juniper to Extend MPLS-based Services
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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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