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To: bucky89 who wrote (40532)	3/23/1998 10:09:00 AM
From: Stimpson J. Cat	Respond to of 61433

MPLS is MultiProtocol Label Switching and it is standardized in the IETF. Ascend and Cisco are the leaders although IBM is involved. Ascend's solution is closer to the standard and has far more functionality. This sort of thing will play out to some very large ATM contracts later this year and on into 1999.

To: bucky89 who wrote (40532)	3/25/1998 9:30:00 PM
From: Jack Whitley	Respond to of 61433

<<The specifics of this technology are quite detailed, but in a nutshell it allows Ascend's ATM switches to read IP packets (layer 3) and switch them using layer 2 ATM technology. This significantly speeds up data flow, and because ATM is a connection-oriented technology, there will not be congestion at any intermediate nodes. Since Quality of Service was specifically designed into ATM by the standards forum, it also allows the carriers to assign higher priority to certain traffic by paying customers.>> Thanks Bucky, this really helped me. Thanks for taking the time. jww