http://www.nwfusion.com/edge/topics/mpls.html The latest MPLS news and analysis from NetworkWorld.com. Network World, Inc. Copyright(C) 1994 - 2009 Network World, Inc. http://www.networkworld.com/news/2009/062909-juniper-routers-multimedia.html Juniper this week announced enhancements to its service provider edge routers that are designed to improve multimedia service delivery to users. Jim Duffy 2009-06-29T12:00:00-04:00 http://www.networkworld.com/newsletters/wireless/2009/061509wireless2.html A chain of drive-in restaurants trolling for a new branch office router settled on a lower-cost, higher-performing option: a remote wireless LAN access point with a cellular module. Joanie Wexler 2009-06-16T12:00:00-04:00 http://www.networkworld.com/news/tech/2009/061509-tech-update.html Visibility can be the critical factor in heading off the increasing number of attacks, outages and data breaches in large-scale distributed networks. But up to now total visibility of Ethernet networks has been infeasible due to the cost of deploying analytical devices throughout the network. Distributed traffic capture is a new approach to network monitoring that can deliver complete, selectable and centralized visibility. Terence Breslin 2009-06-15T12:00:00-04:00 http://www.networkworld.com/newsletters/frame/2009/061509wan1.html This is our last newsletter in a series of five newsletters that examined some of the factors that are driving IT organizations to rethink their approach to routing. This newsletter will discuss the need for routers to support MPLS. Jim Metzler and Steve Taylor 2009-06-15T12:00:00-04:00 http://www.networkworld.com/columnists/2009/052809johnson.html It feels like 1989 all over again. Wacky haircuts are back (I think I saw a mullet the other day). "Alternative rock" sounds a lot like what used to be called "new wave." Big shoulders are back. And we geeks are waxing rhapsodic about the wonders of videoconferencing. Johna Till Johnson 2009-05-28T12:00:00-04:00 http://www.networkworld.com/newsletters/wireless/2009/052509wireless2.html Wireless vendors are attempting to ease the pain of branch office computing with multifunction networking products that replicate the headquarters LAN experience and require little or no IT expertise. But don't forget that at any site with more than one possible WAN path to take you need routing. Joanie Wexler 2009-05-26T12:00:00-04:00 http://www.networkworld.com/newsletters/converg/2009/051809converge1.html Verizon Business and Avaya have expanded their joint-offerings for VoIP and contact center capabilities, and Sprint Nextel has spelled out their unified communications strategy for both wireless and wireline offers. Larry Hettick and Steve Taylor 2009-05-15T12:00:00-04:00 http://www.networkworld.com/columnists/2009/051409johnson.html Most IT professionals hate doing telecom RFPs. No surprise — much of the effort is process and paperwork, two things that many find tedious and boring. Johna Till Johnson 2009-05-14T12:00:00-04:00 http://www.networkworld.com/columnists/2009/041609johnson.html Mobility represents one of the fastest-growing line items in most IT budgets as an increasing number of employees request and receive mobile services. Yet most companies don’t even have a mobility strategy: Only 40% of the IT pros I work with have deployed one (though another 40% say they’re developing one). Johna Till Johnson 2009-04-16T12:00:00-04:00 http://www.networkworld.com/news/2009/032709-mpls-turns-12.html The IETF Thursday threw a birthday party for one of its most successful standards: Multi-Protocol Label Switching. Carolyn Duffy Marsan 2009-03-27T12:00:00-04:00