Are hybrid wide area networks the nail in the coffin for MPLS?

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Are hybrid wide area networks the nail in the coffin for MPLS?

Copyright © 2015 Dimension Data

A maturing Internet and the increasing adoption of cloud are changing the face of corporate data management and delivery for good.

MPLS networks are still popular today … but, organisations are realising that several other connectivity alternatives may make sense from a cost and efficiency standpoint.

Does this spell the beginning of the end for MPLS as we know it?


Is the writing on the wall for MPLS simply because the economics of it don’t make sense anymore?

Over ten times more capacity at a 33% reduction in cost.

Adding up the numbers


If an organisation can get better application performance through a hybrid WAN strategy, why have an MPLS network at all?

The trend is clearly toward a multiconnectivity strategy.

What about performance?


Despite the obvious benefits, there are still factors holding organisations back from the immediate adoption of a more cost-effective hybrid WAN strategy:

• extended MPLS contracts withservice providers

• Internet ‘brown-out’ failures•  price pressure

MPLS probably won’t die out completely, but it will certainly need to be far more cost-competitive in order to survive.

Slowing the process


Step #1 to taking advantage of the benefits of a hybrid WAN … understand the applications you have running over your network, and what traffic volumes and patterns they create.

Your network can then be designed in such a way as to detect when there’s any form of performance degradation, and to optimally reroute the traffic via another channel.

Knowing what's on your network

Are hybrid wide area networks the nail in the coffin for MPLS?

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