By 2010 both ATM and FR were in fairly steep decline, relegated to the status of legacy technologies. MPLS usage is growing and new applications for it continue to emerge, making it the technology of choice for most large-scale networks. Nowadays the great buzzword is “cloud computing”, with different versions such as Software as a Service (SaaS—Gmail, Google maps, YouTube, Facebook), Platform as a Service (PaaS—Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud, Windows Azure, Salesforce). All of these utilize MPLS-based networks.

This is a web-based video recording of the 6-hour long course webcast live on Oct 28-29, 2009. It’s aimed at those who wish to develop a deeper understanding of Multiprotocol Label Switching (MPLS), related issues, and the competition.