How does MPLS work?

A Multi-Protocol Label Switching (MPLS) solution is essentially a fully managed Wide Area Network (WAN) delivered using MPLS technology.

MPLS solutions are ideal for businesses that have multiple geographically dispersed office sites that require the benefits of a private network and the ability to prioritise certain types of traffic, e.g. voice, without incurring the time and cost resources required to build and manage it themselves.

For each customer, NewNet will create a private and secure VPN within our MPLS core into which we will terminate circuits to each of your offices and allocate dedicated bandwidth according to your requirements. For example, you may decide that you need 2Mb for voice traffic and 20Mb for all other data. We will then ensure that the links between the office sites prioritise this traffic. The MPLS core identifies each packet of data and will then prioritise its movement across the network and find the optimum route. This is known as ‘Quality of Service’ (QoS).

Applications that can be run over MPLS: