IP MPLS Information
Every year businesses put more and more traffic onto the internet. Data services used to be for things like file transfers, but now added to it are voip, webcasts, security cameras, video conferencing and other data heavy, real-time applications. All of this type of traffic puts an increased strain on the resources of the internet. Normally all of this traffic would be treated the same, as IP packets, but what if you want your voip traffic to have priority over email traffic. And you probably don't want a webcast that suffers from latency, jitter, or delay.
MPLS solutions have the advantages of increased speed, scalability, quality of service (QoS), and traffic engineering.
What is traffic engineering? When you are driving down the freeway, you probably choose the lane that is moving the fastest and with the least amount of congestion. IP MPLS networks have the ability to do something similar. They can prioritize traffic, kind of like putting it into different lanes. The packets that need to get through the fastest are put into a "fast lane", so to speak. This is accomplished by tagging packets with labels that specify to the network how they should be handled.
How do the packets get tagged with a label? There are two types of routers in a MPLS network, label edge routers (lers) and label switching routers (lsrs). Label edge routers are like the on ramp to the network, they attach a tag to the packet that says how the packet should be handled and the path to take. Label switching routers are in the heart of the network, directing the packets according to the label attached to it.
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