Mary Petrosky

If you operate a private ATM campus network or metropolitan-area network, a Multi-protocol Label Switch Layer 2 VPN could be a cost-effective, high-speed alternative.

If you operate a private ATM campus network or metropolitan-area network, a Multi-protocol Label Switch Layer 2 VPN could be a cost-effective, high-speed alternative.

Service providers in the metropolitan-area network arena are in the midst of a technology explosion.

As we step into the 21st century, I

While 1000Base-T was all the rage at NetWorld+Interop

Just when you thought it was safe to ignore the Resource Reservation Protocol (RSVP), the industry is looking to exploit this signalling scheme for everything from quality of service (QoS) to traffic engineering to policy-based management. Fortunately, the renewed interest in RSVP is prompting the Internet Engineering Task Force (IETF) to address some of the protocol

Like FTP Software Inc. and other TCP/IP stack vendors before it, independent vendors of IP management products have essentially disappeared from the market.