Welcome to the February 2007 Edition of Foundry Flash!

Differentiated Services Flourish with MPLS

Multi-Protocol Label Switching (MPLS) is helping usher in sophisticated business services. Similar to Asynchronous Transfer Mode (ATM) and Frame Relay, MPLS allows traffic engineering that prevents congestion on networks. MPLS switches assign labels to traffic based on its destination, type of service, or other criteria. In the enterprise, MPLS can prioritize voice traffic or other business-critical traffic on a converged network. Service providers are deploying on MPLS so they can offer VPNs for basic data connectivity, multi-service VPNS for multiple traffic types, and differentiated services with service level agreements.

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Deploying MPLS with Foundry Solutions
Foundry offers multiple MPLS switches for service providers and enterprises. The NetIron XMR passed interoperability testing at ISOCORE for a variety of Layer 2 and Layer 3 services, including BGP/MPLS VPN, Virtual Private LAN Services (VPLS), Virtual Leased Line (Pseudo-wire) services and more.

Designed to meet the standards of a new class of IPv4/IPv6/MPLS routers, the NetIron XMR is built for the emerging broadband service provider infrastructure. The routers bolster the foundation for multi-play services, as well as converged backbone and broadband VPN offerings that will define next generation service provider networks.

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The Foundry NetIron MLX Series are high-performance IPv4, IPv6, MPLS routers featuring multi-VRF and advanced Layer 2 switching capabilities. These elite switching routers address the diverse needs of environments ranging from metro networks, ISPs, data centers, large enterprises, government networks, education/research, and high performance computing (HPC).

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The purpose-built NetIron M2404 allows advanced service level agreement (SLA) enforcement with hierarchical quality of service (QoS), resilient sub-50ms service recovery time, and comprehensive MPLS and EFM OAM capabilities. This versatile solution helps service providers support popular metro access applications, such as FTTx, ETTx, MTU, wireless backhaul and multi-play service delivery.

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MPLS TRAINING

Learn How to Deploy MPLS from Foundry Experts
On April 9-13 in the Foundry offices in Santa Clara, Foundry routing experts will offer an in-depth course on deploying MPLS. Attendees will learn:

• MPLS fundamentals
• Basics of VPNs
• Layer 2 VPNs
• MPLS label distribution
• Advanced routing in the provider core
• MPLS traffic engineering
• Quality of service in MPLS

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