Recently, a reader wrote to tell me about the big relief he felt when he bought a Layer 3 MPLS VPN service. With such a site-to-site service, one option is to peer the WAN routers at customer sites ...

In the last newsletter, we discussed the inconvenience of router misconfiguration and the percentage of problems it causes for outages in IP-based networks. In order to look at the security impact of ...

The service, appropriately titled AT&T Network Based IP VPN, extends IP VPN services over the firm's Multi-Protocol Label Switching (MPLS) network. It was expected to be available to channel partners ...

Cisco is to offer a tunnel-less VPN, which could solve some of the challenges of securing WAN traffic. At the moment many organizations use IPSec encryption to create secure tunnels between company ...

BOSTON — Cisco Systems Inc. Tuesday announced enhancements to its Cisco 10000 Series family of edge services routers, offering service providers IPSec protocol and Multiprotocol Label Switching (MPLS) ...

Despite the hype generated by SD-WAN and secure access service edge (SASE), multipath label switching (MPLS) remains a top enterprise WAN option. According to the research firm IMARC Group, the ...

George Gualda, CIO at Link Staffing Inc. wanted to securely connect 49 branch offices in 23 states to his company’s Houston headquarters. Gualda decided he needed to build a virtual private network ...