Adoption of MPLS in the Enterprise

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Hi,

MPLS has been in use at providers for a number of years.

Does anyone have experience with MPLS adoption at the enterprise level? For
what reasons was it deployed?

Thanks

-Lee

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Hi Lee,

We have experience with MPLS at the enterprise.
The implementation was to connect several site of the same company.
Each site network is connecting using VLAN & DiffServ witch maps to MPLS
that work between the company sites.
Since it is a large company we use there the MPLS also as VLAN tags
extension.

Best Regards
Chen Genossar
VP Business Development
Optical Access
phone: 972-4-9936290
fax: 972-4-9892743
mobile: 972-54-936290
cgenossar@opticalaccess.com
www.OpticalAccess.com

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The same reasons service providers do it - offer multiple L3 networks on
the same physical infrastruture, also known as MPLS L3 VPN's

At least that's the deployments I've seen.

/Jesper

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>
> Hi,
>
> MPLS has been in use at providers for a number of years.
>
> Does anyone have experience with MPLS adoption at the enterprise level? For
> what reasons was it deployed?

The same reasons service providers do it - offer multiple L3 networks on
the same physical infrastruture, also known as MPLS L3 VPN's

At least that's the deployments I've seen.

Another thing I've seen is enterprise customers moving towards traffic
engineering. In my experience (which is mostly with ISPs), there tend
to be two kinds of enterprise customers - those whose core network
works like an ISP and therefore is asked to provide all the services
an actual commercial ISP would, and those whose core network gets far
less attention than it should.

The latter folks are at least talking about TE, mostly because often
the budget for more links just isn't there. Of course, in general
enterprise customers tend to move far slower than service providers,
so it may be too early to say what's going to happen.

eric