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Date: October 2001
 

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Testing MPLS VPNs

Paul Doolan, co-author of a seminal book on IP switching, stated recently that any technology requires ten years to reach maturity. With MPLS now reaching its fifth birthday, it is clear, as Doolan predicted, that the technology and its applications are still evolving.

Virtually all networking technologies have required one or more "killer" applications to stimulate widespread acceptance and deployment. Initially, traffic engineering (TD), which would reduce congestion and costs and improve manageability for service provider (SP) networks, was considered to be the most important application for MPLS.

With the tightening economy in the U.S. and the rest of the world, however, the focus of SPs has shifted to exploring new avenues of revenue generation. The result has been a dramatic increase in interest in the use of MPLS for deployment of Virtual Private Network services (MPLS VPNs) by both SPs and their enterprise customers.