WAN SERVICES: MPLS TECHNOLOGY OVERVIEW
IZR Solutions is a market-leading supplier of MPLS (Multi-Protocol Label Switching) based solutions.
MPLS (Multi-Protocol Label Switching) is a private IP VPN, combining the flexible any-to-any communication found on PSTN or Internet with the reliability, quality and security delivered via Private Lines, Frame Relay or ATM services.
It offers differentiated performance levels and prioritisation of delay and non-delay sensitive traffic as well as voice and multimedia applications - all on a single network. A range of management options are available including supply and management of Customer Premise Equipment (CPE), providing a fully managed solution. Alternatively unmanaged options are also available to provide companies with the flexibility to manage their own CPE.
IZR are truly “vendor independent” service provider and can take connections from multiple carriers to create a single MPLS network infrastructure. This approach ensures that each customer location receives the best connectivity solution at the best price.
Reporting and management information from IZR far exceeds the usual in and outbound line utilisation reports – application level management information can be provided on a weekly or monthly basis, allowing business decisions to be made on fact not fiction.
The Benefits of MPLS
MPLS supports applications that cross geographic and company boundaries in the form of Intranets and Extranets. MPLS offers:
Flexibility - In today's business environment, your company needs to be able to respond quickly to change. MPLS solutions can help you keep pace. With MPLS, you can easily deploy new applications on your network to support changing business needs. At the same time we offer rapid configuration and provisioning so as your organisation grows or you add or move international locations, you can do so quickly and easily. And, when combined with IZR's broad portfolio of IP and networking services, IZR MPLS enables you to tailor and enhance your network to suit varying application requirements.
Performance - Not all of your network traffic is likely to be equally time-sensitive. Real-time and mission critical applications might need priority over web surfing traffic, or possibly web-based applications are an essential part of operations. MPLS enables the consolidation of all of your applications onto a single network while prioritisation of traffic into different Application Classes, optimising network usage for the types of applications you are running.
Single Network, Single Source - As end to end, fully managed service from IZR, we can help you realise cost savings by relieving you of network management expense and headache.
Security and Reliability - MPLS is a secure service, utilising leading edge IP and MPLS technology to isolate packets on the network - your data remains confidential and your network is protected from outside intrusion. Network traffic is monitored and proactively managed, enabling us to back the service with industry-leading, comprehensive Service Level Guarantees.
Consultancy - Optimising an IP VPN Service can be challenging. Matching applications with the class of service requirements, defining and optimising the routing protocol architecture, migrating from Data Networks and troubleshooting inter-working problems can all add to the complexity. IZR can assist customers with its extensive in-depth expertise in MPLS VPNs and IP VPN Class of Service. IZR offers customers pre implementation design guidance, migration planning and detailed service specification.
Who Should Buy MPLS
MPLS is proving extremely popular with small and medium enterprises. The service is ideal for customers that require:
- Any-to-any connectivity (i.e. meshed or partially-meshed network)
- The ability to prioritise different applications
- Different performance levels for different application types
- A network that can expand and contract easily in line with their own expansion strategy
- LAN-to-LAN or WAN-to-WAN connectivity over private networks
- Reduced networking costs and improved speed-to-market for its products