Multi-Protocol Label Switching A standard under development by the IETF. It is proposed that a label with various attributes, such as routing and QoS information, is attached to each packet. The label is used by the router s in the core of the network.
A standards-approved technology for speeding up network traffic flow, MPLS makes it easier to manage for quality of service. One of the most intelligent parts of the SuperNet network, and a fundamental strength, MPLS in the SuperNet system provides the flexible architecture that enables the scaleability of the network to support data, voice and video, while providing security and quality of service.
The name given by the IETF to the workgroup responsible for label switching. Also the name of the label switching technology it has standardized.
Multi-protocol label switching. A way to keep all IP packets from the same voice or video session associated with each other in a common "flow," by adding a special label to the IP packet.
MPLS is a scheme typically used to enhance an IP network. Routers on the incoming edge of the MPLS network add an 'MPLS label' to the top of each packet. This label is based on some criteria (e.g. destination IP address) and is then used to steer it through the subsequent routers. The routers on the outgoing edge strip it off before final delivery of the original packet. MPLS can be used for various benefits such as multiple types of traffic coexisting on the same network, ease of traffic management, faster restoration after a failure, and, potentially, higher performance.
Multi-protocol Label Switching. This protocol, relevant in networking technology, provides scalable infrastructure for the Internet. MPLS uses the concept of label switching to create a 'virtual circuit' between two-end points. The main use of MPLS is to create high quality VPNs ( Virtual Private Networks). In addition, MPLS may be used to allow integrated-access services such as voice/video and data over IP.
Multi Protocol Label Switching. A protocol that allows IP packet routing based on priority or QoS level using short-length label. Because routing decision is determined by label examination instead of IP packet header, MPLS makes routing process faster. MPLS is intended for multi-service IP network that requires traffic management. With MPLS, voice traffic which is delay-sensitive is prioritized over other traffic such as Web browsing, e-mail, and file transfer.
See Multiprotocol Label Switching traffic engineering.
Multiprotocol Label Switching. A standards-approved technology for speeding up network traffic flow and making it easier to manage. MPLS involves setting up a specific path for a given sequence of packets, identified by a label put in each packet, thus saving the time needed for a router to look up the address to the next node to forward the packet to. MPLS is called multiprotocol because it works with the Internet Protocol (Internet Protocol ), Asynchronous Transport Mode (asynchronous transfer mode), and frame relay network protocol.
A technology, designed to speed up network traffic and manage flow, in which each packet is given a label that designates its network path. This helps to unclog networks because routers simply pass the packet on, instead of determining a route. MPLS is called multiprotocol because it works with multiple standards.
Multiprotocol Label Switching. Switching method that forwards IP traffic using a label. This label instructs the routers and switches in the network where to forward the packets based on pre-established IP routing information
Multiprotocol label switching (MPLS). This is a versatile solution that aims to address the problems that are faced by present-day networks. These include scalability, speed, quality-of-service (QoS) management, and also traffic engineering. MPLS emerged as an elegant solution aiming to meet the bandwidth-management and also service requirements for the next-generation Internet protocol (IP). MPLS addresses issues related to routing and scalability and were based on QoS and service quality metrics. They can exist over existing asynchronous transfer mode (ATM) and also frame-relay networks.
Multiprotocol Label Switching (commutation multiprotocole par étiquette)
MultiProtocol Label Switching. Emerging industry standard upon which tag switching is based.
Acronym for multiprotocol label switching, which tunnels paths through networks for specific purposes, steers incoming traffic into an appropriate tunnel, and then relies on a label that it slaps on the data packet to transmit it through the network. As a result, traffic can usually run at the faster switching level (layer 2) instead of the routing level (layer 3). Large carriers now design the core of their networks around MPLS, but the true benefits of MPLS depend on pushing the technology all the way out to the customer, which only recently became possible with the pseudo-wire emulation end-to-end (PWE3) standard that enables MPLS to carry multiple forms of traffic.
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Multiprotocol Label Switching. MPLS is a method for forwarding packets (frames) through a network. It enables routers at the edge of a network to apply labels to packets (frames). ATM switches or existing routers in the network core can switch packets according to the labels with minimal lookup overhead.
Multiprotocol label switching protocol RFC 3031
Multi-protocol Label Switching is an IETF initiative that integrates Layer 2 information about network links (bandwidth, latency, utilization) into Layer 3 (IP) within a particular autonomous system--or ISP --in order to simplify and improve IP -packet exchange. MPLS gives network operators a great deal of flexibility to divert and route traffic around link failures, congestion, and bottlenecks.
(MultiProtocol Label Switching) An IETF–defined protocol that is used in IP traffic management. Basically, it provides a means for one router to pass on its routing priorities to another router by means of a label and without having to examine the packet and its header, thus saving the time required for the latter device to look up the address for the next node. It can also facilitate Quality of Service (QoS).
Multiprotocol Label Switching integrates Layer 2 information about network links such as bandwidth, utilization and latency into Layer 3 (IP). This gives network operators flexibility to divert and route traffic around link failures, congestion, and bottlenecks.
(Multiprotocol Label Switching) A switching protocol that integrates Layer 2 information about network links into Layer 3 in order to simplify and improve IP packet exchange.
Multi protocol label switching; BT's system that enables any network to connect to any other.
Multiprotocol lambda switching. Also known as Generalized MPLS.
Multi-Protocol Label Switching. In MPLS, data transmission occurs on label-switched paths (LSPs). Each data packet encapsulates and carries the labels during their journey from source to destination. MPLS addresses issues related to scalability and routing based on QoS and service quality metrics.
Multiprotocol Label Switching (allowing QoS and traffic engineering on IP networks)
Multiprotocol Label Switching. Mechanism for engineering network traffic patterns that functions by assigning to network packets short labels that describe how to forward them through the network. Also called label switching. See also traffic engineering.
Method for forwarding IP packets across networks using predefined routes. A label, appended to each packet, is used by routers and switches to determine to which node to forward the packet.
A variation of MPLS in which specific wavelengths serve in place of labels as unique identifiers. The specified wavelengths, like the labels, make it possible for routers and switches to perform necessary functions automatically, without having to extract instructions regarding those functions from IP addresses or other packet information.
A standards-approved technology that allows core network routers to operate at higher speeds without needing to examine each packet in detail, allows more complex services to be developed, enabling discrimination on a QoS basis. MPLS speeds up network traffic flow by bringing Layer 2 information to Layer 3 (IP) and facilitating network management. It forwards traffic using a label that instructs the routers and the switches in the network where to forward the packets based on pre-established IP routing information. MPLS is called multiprotocol because it works with the IP, ATM, and Frame Relay network protocols.
A way of making the best of IP and ATM technologies into one to create multi service networks to carry any sort of traffic.
Multiprotocol Label Switching Specification
Multi-Protocol Label Switching; the successor to DiffServ, a label will be applied to a service flow and will cause bandwidth reservation and prioritization with a set of hop-by-hop behaviours negotiated among the relay devices.