July 9, 2002 — (WEB HOST INDUSTRY REVIEW) — Communications carrier Cable & Wireless (CW.com) announced it has upgraded the US portion of its global IP network to OC-192 running MPLS from coast-to-coast.
Multiprotocol label switching (MPLS) is a versatile is an addition to Internet Protocol (IP) designed to address the problems faced by present-day networks, including speed, scalability, quality-of-service (QoS) management, and traffic engineering. MPLS can provide bandwidth management and service requirements for next-generation IP-based backbone networks. The protocol can manage scalability and routing issues (based on QoS and service quality metrics) and can exist over existing asynchronous transfer mode (ATM) and frame-relay networks.
The upgrade follows the OC-192 multi-city links brought on-line in the fourth quarter of 2001 connecting Washington, DC and New York with London, Paris, Brussels, Amsterdam and Frankfurt. The current upgrade adds Anaheim, Atlanta, Chicago, Dallas and Santa Clara.
