MPLS

Silver Lining now provides many organisations with an MPLS or Multi Protocol Label Switching solution. This awesome service assists in simplifying your network whilst significantly enhancing it’s efficiency. MPLS is easy to deploy and provides a much demanded Quality of Service (QoS) for your network.

What is MPLS?

MPLS (Multi Protocol Label Switching) is a managed wide area networking solution for multi-site businesses. It provides our customers with secure, private networking on a resilient core network, which enables simplification of network architecture combined with improved business processes and efficiencies. MPLS emulates some of the properties of a circuit-switched network over a packet-switched or IP network. It has the ability to transmit different types of data whilst prioritising them according to the importance of speed of delivery. For example, on a network that has users sending emails and making VoIP phone calls, the VoIP traffic is prioritised over the email traffic to ensure no loss of quality or latency.

Benefits of using an MPLS

The benefits of utilising an MPLS network include better performance, lower total cost of ownership, greater flexibility to accommodate new technologies, better security and survivability.

• Better performance through quality of service (QoS) and priority queuing so the network knows which traffic is most important and ensures that it takes priority
• Reduction in on-going WAN operating costs by up to 50%, while maintaining a high level of reliability and service
• “Future-proof” the network architecture so it can respond rapidly to changing business needs, including new services, latency sensitive traffic, bandwidth intensive traffic, VoIP and video
• Lower packet loss means faster response for many applications
• Network survivability from a fully meshed nature
• Delivery of firewalled internet access from the cloud to specified facilities to eliminate internet local loop costs

Speak to one of our networking specialists today to discuss the advantages and benefits of using an MPLS and its suitability for your business.