MPLS

How it is used

Spelled out letter by letter. Companies buy MPLS circuits or an MPLS VPN from a carrier to connect their branches privately, with QoS and an SLA. Many are now moving part of that traffic to SD-WAN over cheaper internet links.

Example sentences

1. All 60 branches connect to the data centre over the carrier's MPLS network.

2. The MPLS contract ends next year, so we're evaluating SD-WAN.

Common collocations

• MPLS network
• MPLS circuit
• MPLS VPN
• MPLS label

Related terms

• WANShort for wide area network: a network that links sites across cities or countries, usually over lines leased from a telecom operator or over the internet.
• SD-WANShort for software-defined wide area network: an approach that manages a company's WAN links centrally through software and sends each application over the best available link, such as internet, 4G or MPLS.
• carrierA telecommunications company that owns or operates a network and carries voice and data traffic for customers or for other operators.
• QoSShort for quality of service: a set of techniques that give important traffic, such as voice and video, priority over less urgent traffic when a link is busy.
• backboneThe high-capacity core part of a network that connects smaller networks, sites or cities and carries most of the traffic between them.

This word in other fields

The same English word can have a different meaning in another field:

• MPLS · Software Engineering

More terms: Telecom Operators and Services

• ISP
• SLA
• spectrum
• last mile
• broadband
• provision
• NOC