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RSS mpls in newsCapita beats IBM to £424m Birmingham IT deal
News Around 450 Birmingham council IT staff will be seconded into a joint-venture with Capita, called Service Birmingham Partnership, and there will be investment in a new MPLS-based wide area network and a Capita-run data centre. [05 Dec 2005]
Bookmaker Coral bets £7m on broadband
News BT is currently rolling out the ADSL network for the bookmaker, based on its MPLS-based IP Clear offering. Bookmaker Coral is spending £7.1m over the next five years on a broadband managed network to connect its 1,268 UK branches. [16 Nov 2005]
London to get citywide Ethernet LANs from BT
News Davis said: "Two of the POPs are co-located with MPLS POPs on the 21CN. If we needed to, we could hold metropolitan areas together with MPLS in the 21CN. BT will offer Ethernet networks that span London, in a new virtual private LAN service (VPLS... [15 Sep 2005]
Companies splash out millions on IP networks
News The telco will convert Air Products' sites in Africa, the Americas, Asia, Europe and the Middle East so that they use multi-protocol label switching (MPLS) technology, which generally helps transmit data packets more flexibly. [25 Aug 2005]
Vanco signs $85m airline deal
News ARINC will offer its new and existing customers Vanco's MPLS Matrix and IP Secure solutions - the technical heartbeat of the west London firm's virtual network operator model. UK virtual network operator Vanco has announced a five-year channel... [14 Jun 2005]
AT&T lands $8.5m deal with manufacturer
News The VPN will use MPLS switching to allow the French firm to priortise data across the network. Multinational manufacturing firm Saint Gobain has signed up AT&T in a three-year networking contract worth $8.5m. [06 Apr 2005]
Vanco seals £5.8m WAN deal
News As such, customers may find themselves with a patchwork of offerings pulled together and supported by Vanco, complete with service level agreement and MPLS core technology. UK virtual network operator Vanco has sealed a £5.8m deal with supply chain... [07 Feb 2005]
De Vere inks £1.8m deal with Vanco
News The deal will see De Vere changing from an ADSL core data network to an MPLS-based one, giving the chain quadruple bandwidth. Hotel and leisure chain De Vere has signed a contract extension worth £1.8m with Vanco, following on from a deal worth... [21 Jan 2005]
Users still ignorant about MPLS networks
News Wide-area networks connecting organisations' sites using a technology called MPLS - short for Multi-Protocol Label Switching - aren't as popular as recent headlines would have us believe. Only 49.5 per cent said they have heard of MPLS, which is... [06 Jan 2005]
Lloyds TSB signs £500m outsourcing deal with IBM
News IBM Global Services and virtual network operator Vanco will provide a high-capacity DSL and MPLS connections for the bank's 2,000-odd branches and its network of 4,200 cash machines. Lloyds TSB has signed a £500m seven-year deal with IBM to boost... [06 Dec 2004]
BT wins €27.5m services deal
News The latest contract - it is one of a number of deals have been announced by the former UK state telco in the past 18 months - links together 22 locations across 14 European countries using BT's MPLS networking technology for IP connectivity. [25 Oct 2004]
Vanco seals €4.3m Siemens deal
News UK virtual network operator Vanco has won a €4.3m deal to integrate multiple MPLS infrastructures into a single global seamless network for German electronics giant Siemens. The three-year deal will see Vanco integrate MPLS (multi protocol label... [06 Sep 2004]
AT&T wins Swiss airline IP contract
News The AT&T Global Network (AGN) will link 36 sites across Europe and North America, making available IP VPNs based on a technology called MPLS (Multilayer Protocol Switching), which translates into increased networking flexibility. [26 Aug 2004]
Global Crossing wins $80m UK government contract
News An IP virtual private network which uses a popular protocol called MPLS for added flexibility will form the basis of secure networking, across all types of government sites, from the large to the small served by DSL connections. [22 Jun 2004]
BT satisfying Manpower's global ambitions
News Kevin Fitzpatrick, CTO at Manpower, said: "We used an IP VPN using MPLS [Multi-Protocol Label Switching] to connect our offices in an end-to-end, performant way. MPLS allows for more flexible managed networking using IP VPN. [14 Jun 2004]
