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MPLS – the Greatest Service Provider Technology of All Time

MPLS (Multiprotocol Label Switching) is often regarded as one of the most elegant service provider networking technologies after TCP/IP itself because it solved several big problems introduced in the late 1990s (and I got to be part of that): For service providers, this was game-changing. Many argue that without MPLS, the explosion of managed VPNs, […]

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What ever happened to ATM (Asynchronous Transfer Mode)?

Asynchronous Transfer Mode (ATM) was once seen as a promising Layer 2 networking technology due to its ability to handle a variety of traffic types (voice, video, and data) with high efficiency and quality of service (QoS) performance guarantees. I spent several years working with and then teaching ATM courses to my fellow telecom engineers. 

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