Blog Category: MPLS VPN

One of the hottest discussion topics in networking circles recently has been Firesheep, an extension to the Mozilla Firefox web browser. Firesheep allows a hacker to access someone else's browsing session when they are sharing the same Internet connection.

Are you attending the ITEXPO conference in Los Angeles next week? If so, you won't want to miss two valuable, information-packed sessions about MPLS, presented by MegaPath experts.

Many MegaPath partners had a chance to get acquainted with MPLS University through two webinars held in August. Did you? It is clear from the great participation in the August 12 session held for partners-only, and the August 25 session presented jointly with Cisco for SMB end users and partners, that customers have plenty of questions about how to make their networks stretch to better serve the business.

I like to think about the significance of reaching milestones by also thinking about what they will mean to the path ahead. Today Megapath announced its 10 year anniversary of offering MPLS-based services.

"Let no budget line item go unscrutinized" has been the motto in recent years for many state and local governments and their agencies. Seems like a fairly straightforward approach for the cash-strapped public sector.

Whether it's entering a complex customer order or simply checking email, more business activity is being driven by online access to key data and applications. Yet as that access is getting more important, it is also getting more complicated...

A new player is emerging in the US telecom market today: the managed services local exchange carrier (MSLEC). I'm glad to be part of its development.

MegaPath is a Master Cisco Managed Services Channel Partner, and so we were invited to Cisco Partner Summit again this year. The event was in San Francisco, and gave us a chance to get together with one of our important technology partners and get their view of the networked economy.

Because MegaPath has been running its own core MPLS network for more than 10 years, we readily toss around the term MPLS and perhaps don't give enough consideration to how well understood the term is (or is not) amongst technology users from small business to large enterprise.

The number of people using our SSL VPN service continues to grow at an impressive rate, and even though February is the shortest month of the year, we managed to post our largest numbers ever.

Mastering the Triple Play
My chance to make ‘triple plays’ came in communications, providing a trio of voice, data and security solutions to our customers. And I’m proud to say that we are recognized as having mastery skills at providing these managed services.

There's no denying that this has been the week for iPad news domination.
Good, bad, or indifferent—people are certainly talking about the iPad!

4 MPLS Sessions Focused on Future-Proofing the Network for Performance and Reliability
With all the talk about MPLS networks, cloud-based computing, and voice-data convergence trends, we thought the ITEXPO show in Miami was an ideal place to address the complexity but real benefit of MPLS in network traffic engineering. We asked the question "got mpls?" and plenty of people packed 4 sessions at MegaPath University to learn more.

It can be argued that MPLS has been one of the most successful standards to come out of the IETF. It has been very widely deployed by business around the globe, in both small and large networks. If your business hasn’t yet leveraged MPLS, its really time you considered doing so.

With the end of the year coming up fast, it seems like it is a good time to take a look at what 2010 has in store for us. Several trends in business connectivity have developed over the last year, and will continue to further evolve in 2010. Here is a list of 10 topics you should take into consideration as you do your planning for next year.

Internet Security issues have been getting a lot of press lately. Facebook, Twitter and LiveJournal have been the targets of recent attacks, and CNET points out that not keeping your security up to date could be part of what is enabling such activitiy.