Businesses today are demanding greater performance from their networks than ever before. That’s the appeal of MPLS (Multiprotocol Label Switching) and IP-VPN (Virtual Private Networks). MPLS-enabled Wide Area Networks (WAN) offer more bandwidth, faster application deployment, lower network operating costs, and more access options than traditional WAN services.

MPLS from CSG will protect your business data with a secure and dependable network, allowing you to connect remote offices, mobile users or partner extranets reliably and securely. MPLS is also scalable for your growing business.

The Key Benefits of MPLS:

Improved uptime (from ultra-fast re-routing)

If a major link within the MPLS network goes down and an alternative path exists, traffic can be re-routed in less than 50 milliseconds. You wouldn’t notice a thing as the network detects and works around the problem.

Cost-effective, scalable IP VPNs

MPLS IP VPNs make it far simpler to set up a scalable VPN and add new sites. No need for additional hardware such as expensive firewalls, just standard routers.

Improved experience from your VPN

Customer-defined prioritised classes of VPN Traffic can be applied to your WAN. Time-sensitive data is assigned priority over delay tolerant data. For example, if inbound traffic to your head office from remote sites uses up your bandwidth, the traffic is prioritised in accordance to your personal settings, e.g. phone calls might be prioritised over web traffic, which might be prioritised over email etc.

Greater bandwidth utilisation within the WAN

The traditional way of ensuring service quality within the WAN is to create virtual circuits dedicated solely to streams of delay-sensitive traffic. This is not ideal as these circuits are mostly under utilised. MPLS is a far better way of achieving the same quality, as bandwidth can be used by other services when the higher priority services don’t need it.

Multiple sites connected as if on the same LAN

This means that your Birmingham, Manchester and Leeds offices are as easy to connect into the LAN in your London office as the three PCs in the office down the corridor.

Quicker & easier service provision and upgrades

With MPLS there is no need to manually set up routing at every hop through the core network. This can dramatically reduce the lead-time between placing your order or upgrade and it being delivered.

Reduced network congestion

Congestion in your network can mean that the best path for data to be sent along may not necessarily be the shortest. MPLS offers sophisticated Traffic Engineering options that enable data to be sent along atypical paths, bypassing congested areas of the network