Cover Story MPLS Benchmarks Define Net Processor Performance
By Ganesh Balakrishnan And Ravi Gunturi
Network processor vendors are lining up to claim performance pre-eminence when running the MPLS forwarding scheme. Fortunately, the Network Processing Forum's new "black box" MPLS benchmarks are already in place to level the playing field and return the real-world processor performance data that designers need.
Features Optimize Your DWDM Signal Chainfor the Long Haul
By Andreas Muehlschein
Careful analysis of the component-selection decision matrix is essential to releasing the multiplexing scheme's capacity-multiplying potential.