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By Douglas Lantigua, Principal at MUSA Technology Partners Effectively solving the problem of corporate Disaster Recovery and Business Continuity (DR/BC) starts with proper planning and

When you sign a contract with a carrier, the purpose is to set forth the material terms of your agreement. There is really no purpose

One challenge with Cloud Computing is dependency on an internet whose performance can vary from hour to hour. MPLS and Ethernet carrier networks can provide truly dependable

As everyone knows, the weakest link in any wide area network is the local loop.  No matter how good the carrier is, local loops will

According to TeleGeography, the world’s leading research firm on global international pricing trends: MPLS IP VPN port charges are generally lowest in major cities in the

So you want to use an IPSec VPN to backup your MPLS network.  It can be done, with the right engineering. In the simplest terms: Use BGP

A google search (June 2009)  on a ‘SIP Trunking’ returns ~500k references. From Wikipedia (replace ‘connection’ with Trunk) A SIP (Session Initiation Protocol) connection is

This post does not really relate to most of the others on this blog.  But I just finished a meeting with some network architects for

VPLS stands for Virtual Private LAN Service, a means of providing Ethernet multi-point to multi-point communications over an IP MPLS network.  This technology allows Local Area Networks to be interconnected and appear

Network traffic is mapped to the desired Class of Service through the classification amd marking of packets. Traffic types are identified by: Source and/or destination