T-Systems announced a strategic partnership with Level 3 Communications that enables it to provide its MPLS-based service portfolio to customers across the entire Level 3 fiber-optic network, which spans approximately 19,000 miles in North America and includes Points of Presence in 68 U.S. markets. T-Systems’ MPLS data service provides corporate customers with an integrated solution for a variety of applications, including corporate wide area networking, voice applications, disaster recovery networks, data overflow networks, video distribution networks and IP backbones. http://www.t-systems.comhttp://www.Level3.com
T-Systems Partners with Level 3 to Extend MPLS Reach
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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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