In the current climate of rapid change and advancement, companies which are set up to respond the most quickly to market shifts will be the ones that retain a competitive advantage. Our VPLS solution assists companies to this end. VPLS uses MAC addresses with Layer 2 switching as opposed to Layer 3 MPLS solutions which use IP addresses and Layer 3 routing. The over-riding advantage of this is that you are in control of your own IP routing. Therefore, your IT department can be much more agile in responding to varying levels of customer demand.

You can conduct rapid reconfigurations yourselves without having to contact your service provider and wait for the provider to act upon the request. Even if you do require a service provider change, the typical time to make network changes is only a fraction of that for Layer 3 MPLS networks because the network planning is much simpler, which could be crucial for some businesses. Another feature which aids agility is the ease of adding new sites. With our VPLS-enabled NGN, a new site can be added by simply changing the network router that connects the site to the VPLS network. With Layer 3 MPLS solutions, however, it is a much more complex process as all of the service provider’s routers need to be changed which typically takes 10 times as long.