MPLS Bandwidth for stable RDP Terminal Server Performance
Many companies use Terminal Server or Citrix widely, for good reason. When accessing a server remotely via an Internet VPN, performance can vary tremendously. In some cases, performance can degrade to a point where sessions freeze or disconnect…and who gets blamed? Over a Terminal Server RDP connection, there are multiple applications (for example video, clipboard, printer […]
Sprint and China Telecom agree to interconnect with multiple NNIs
Sprint and China Telecom have agreed to implement multiple MPLS network-to-network interconnections in the Asia Pacific region so Sprint customers can benefit from congestion free connectivity to China. China Telecom is the largest China based carrier with coverage in 200 cities with 600 routers in the country. With ownership of Trans-Pacific undersea cable infrastructure, China Telecom is […]
Global Crossing offers 6 Classes of Service on MPLS network
Global Crossing has announced that it is expanding its MPLS Class Of Service (CoS) offering to six levels. This will increase the granularity that its customers can fine tune their MPLS network. This particularly benefits users of both voice and video, since both previously shared the same premium time-sensitive CoS, but now both can remain time-sensitive, with […]
SASE Experts appears in Information Week March 10 issue
It’s always satisifying when your efforts are recognized. Information Week recently interviewed me regarding the complexities of obtaining an MPLS network to connect North America to Asia. There are a lot more issues than mpls price quotes, as you can imagine. For copyright reasons, please click this link to go directly to Information Week: Top Seven Tips […]
This business is more than bits and bytes
Help! I need connectivity in Angola. I wrote a little about this a few weeks ago, but an update is due. The client contacted us because their AT&T rep said they couldn’t help them. Our project coordinator put the circuit out to bid with a few carriers that might be suitable. After two weeks, we were tired […]
Will MPLS QoS work with encrypted traffic?
If your company requires extremely secure data transfer with encryption, how can QoS work? The answer depends on the encryption algorithm used. If you use IPsec over GRE, this will work. The 3 IP precedence bits will be copied from the orginal IP header to the GRE header, then further to the IPsec header. At […]
MPLS Quotes, MARCs & Pricing MPLS With Flexibility in Mind
Depending on the carriers that you are considering for your MPLS quotations, you will find many differences in their pricing models. The MARC or Minimum Annual Revenue Commitment is the carriers’ way of guaranteeing their revenue for the entire contract period. If your network prices out at $5000/month, it will cost you $60,000/year. If your MARC is […]
PCCW Global helps restore traffic hit by Middle East cable breaks
HONG KONG, February 6, 2008 – A seasoned PCCW Global crisis management team applied hard-won experience to get service providers back in business after undersea cable breaks hit telecoms services in southern Asia and the Middle East on January 30. Drawing on lessons learned during disruption caused by the December 2006 Taiwan earthquake, the “rescue” team swung […]
Is MPLS access via DSL or Cable Modem for you?
All decisions about a wide area network must consider the cost versus the benefit. Depending on the benefit that a high performance WAN will provide your company, you may or may not be able to cost justify the investment. Most MPLS networks are provisioned with T1, E1 or DS3 loops, which offer symetric upload and download bandwidth […]
Do you need network connectivity where there is none?
We recently received a call from a petroleum exploration company in the USA that needed to network a facility in Angola to their two domestic offices. For those of you that are not familiar with Angola, there simply is no telephone service outside of the capital and a few other areas. How would it be possible […]
