Blog Category: MPLS VPN
- November 8, 2010
- Protecting Your Mobile Workforce from Sheep (Firesheep, that is)
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.
Read More- By MegaPath Marketing
- October 1, 2010
- Catch These MPLS University Sessions at ITEXPO
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.
Read More- By MegaPath Marketing
- September 10, 2010
- MPLS U On-Demand Webinars Now Available
- By MegaPath Marketing
- August 23, 2010
- Welcome to MPLS Milestones Week at MegaPath
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.
Read More- By MegaPath Marketing
- July 13, 2010
- Managed Services Help State and Local Government Budgets
"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.
Read More- By Diane Giuffre
- July 9, 2010
- Enabling the Applications-Driven Business with Managed Network Services
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...
Read More- By MegaPath Marketing
- June 18, 2010
- Why you'll want to partner with a MSLEC
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.
Read More- By MegaPath Marketing
- June 2, 2010
- Picking A Partner: 6 Criteria For Selecting An MSP: Part 3
In this third and final post in this series I am going to go over the last two criteria you should keep in mind, which focus on the operational capabilities of the MSP.
Read More- By Michael Francois
- April 30, 2010
- Cisco Partner Summit: Networks Without Borders
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.
Read More- By Michael Francois
- March 30, 2010
- The Basics of MPLS: Defining Smart Traffic Engineering
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.
Read More- By Jayne Swystun
- March 18, 2010
- SSL VPN Growth: Short Month, Big Numbers
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.
Read More- By Michael Francois
- February 23, 2010
- Prosper by Partnering with a Master MSP
Mastering the Triple Play
I grew up in Maryland, and when I was a kid my baseball hero was Brooks Robinson. Nobody could turn a ball around faster than he could, and I know I will never forget 1973, when “The Human Vacuum Cleaner” started not one, but two triple plays that season.
Read More- By Michael Francois
- January 29, 2010
- The iPad News Monopoly and the Bigger Trend of Mobile, Remote Access
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!
Read More- By Jayne Swystun
- January 21, 2010
- ITExpo Students 'gotmpls' at MegaPath University
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.
Read More- By Jayne Swystun
- January 12, 2010
- 7 Reasons To Deploy MPLS In Your Business Network
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.
Read More- By Michael Francois
- December 9, 2009
- 10 Topics for 2010
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.
Read More- By Michael Francois
- August 11, 2009
- Top 10 Managed Security Services
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.
Read More- By Michael Francois
- June 29, 2009
- The Value of Integration
The VAR500 list for 2009 is out, and MegaPath has made the list again. That's six years in a row.
Read More- By Michael Francois
- June 22, 2009
- The Largest Network In North America
Welcome to the MegaPath Connectivity Blog. MegaPath is the leading provider of managed IP communications services in North America, and as such, we also have the largest reach of any network in North America.
Read More- By Michael Francois
