Editor's Note: To view a PDF version of this article, Click Here. Multiprotocol label-switching (MPLS) technology is about to take off. As the most widely used MPLS routers, label edge routers (LERs) ...

MPLS – or Multiprotocol Label Switching – has been one of the big tech success stories of the past decade. And yet, it’s become rather difficult to find an explanation written in layman’s terms for ...

In the last two posts I discussed the role of FECs in MPLS networks, and implicit and explicit null labels. In this brief post I’d like to discuss MPLS label stacking, as a preliminary to a couple of ...

Multi Protocol Label Switching (MPLS) brings several benefits to Internet Protocol networks, including increased packet forwarding performance, traffic engineering mechanisms to maximize resource ...