Global firm Belron has invested in a new MPLS network, it has been reported. The company, which is behind household names such as Autoglass and Carglass, fixes almost 10,000 windscreens a day and deals with one job every three seconds, so it needs to be able to share repair data across its corporate network. Therefore,
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Luxury brand Space NK apothecary has implemented an MPLS private network, allowing it to use 3G as a replacement for ISDN to back up store IT systems. This is a growing trend amongst retailers who want to avoid “copper theft”, which can prevent them from being able to take card payments in store. Anthony Baldwin,
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A new study from Infonetics Research has suggested that the market for MPLS services is set to grow. The 2012 Ethernet and IP MPLS VPN Services report, which analyses and forecasts the market for managed and unmanaged layer 2 and layer 3 IP MPLS VPN services and wholesale and retail Ethernet services, has found that
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Tata Communications has announced the completion of the first fibre optic cable network to join the entire world. The round-the-world network runs for 9,280km, joining Marseille to the UK, then the US to the UK under the Atlantic and across the Pacific to Singapore, through Asia and India. The final Eurasian stretch has just been
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A new report by Analysys Mason intends to help operators to manage the increase in packet-switched traffic on their networks. The authors of the report claims that the choice between technologies such as MPLS and OTN is a complex one and should be considered carefully. To ensure that operators choose the ultimate strategy in terms
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The London Olympics are just six months away and it’s time to take precautions to protect business networks from overloading under the pressure of extra traffic. This is according to Dr Steven Turner of IT optimisation firm, Intergence, who claims that several things can be done by companies to protect their critical applications during the
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Cumberland Building Society is upgrading its existing wide area network (WAN) in order to focus more of its efforts on delivering the best customer service. The upgrade is also intended to help the building society deliver enhanced performance, through its new contract with InTechnology, which will be providing management, equipment and support services for the
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The US Postal Service has an enormous task to achieve, delivering millions of pieces of mail every day. In order to keep things moving, the service has opted to employ a converged internet protocol communications network based on MPLS. With more than 550,000 employees needing to be kept up-to-date and 584 million pieces of mail
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As business and consumer demand for bandwidth grows, data centre service providers are starting to consider a wider range of networking options to help cater for this. Indeed, Ethernet usage is not the rise, while IP and MPLS is also set to grow over the course of the next two years, along with wavelength. This
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MPLS networks could become increasingly important in businesses as unified communications look set to enjoy further expansion within the business world. Microsoft has cemented its place in the race to improve connectivity within companies with the first anniversary of its Lync service, which replaces legacy private branch exchange (PBX) systems and improves the flexibility and
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International sports broadcaster Eurosport has doubled its network capacity by enhancing its VPN network. The broadcaster has seen a rising level of demand for its multi-media streaming services, which has largely been generated by its business applications. As a result, it required a high capacity network that will both cater to the current demand and
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A Layer 3 MPLS VPN is to play an important role in helping to deliver the IT infrastructure required to handle the massive levels of data transmission expected to take place during the Euro 2012 football tournament. The event, due to take place in Poland and Ukraine, will require a WAN infrastructure to be set
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Standard Chartered Bank is set to expand its services through the use of an MPLS system integrated into its bases at sites in Singapore, Beijing and New York. Juniper Networks has been chosen to deliver the expansion, which will involve deploying secure, high-performance, scalable core, access and data centre network infrastructure for the firm. The
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A new contract-free cloud computing service is to be offered to UK customers by Virgin Media Business. The firm has joined forces with web hosting and services provider Savvis to provide the contract-free option, with companies paying for usage by the hour through a pay-as-you-go setup. It is hoped that the lack of a contract
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MPLS (multi-protocol label switching) is becoming increasingly popular, according to recent research conducted by In-Stat. The survey revealed that businesses are spending more and more on the technology and, by 2015, expenditure is expected to reach $2.4 billion. This increase comes as further In-Stat research found that Software-as-a-Service spending is also due to rise, hitting
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MPLS and ethernet options are set to replace traditional SONET/SDH, it has been suggested. Market research firm Infonetics Research stated that this is one likely eventuality as network transformation efforts get underway. Other changes include ever increasing bit rate, which are rising from 10 Gigabit(G), to 40G and eventually to 100G. As a growing number
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MPLS offers businesses a great many benefits. It increases connection resilience, improves network scalability, enhances the user experience by prioritising traffic appropriately, it increases bandwidth utilisation and it reduces network congestion
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