Organizations today are too dependent on the Internet to experience any downtime when upgrading from IPv4 to IPv6. But help is on the way. The Internet Engineering Task Force (IETF) has defined ...

These service edge routers sit in the service provider point of presence at the edge of the service provider core, aggregating diverse metro and customer-facing ports for transport across the ...

Editor's Note: To view a PDF version of this article, Click Here. Multiprotocol label-switching (MPLS) technology is about to take off. As the most widely used MPLS routers, label edge routers (LERs) ...

Juniper and Tellabs spruce up their old gear to address the emerging multiservice edge routing market--but will the strategy work? Marguerite Reardon started as a CNET News reporter in 2004, covering ...

A router that resides within the middle of the network rather than at its periphery. The routers that make up the backbone of the Internet are core routers. See edge router and WAN router. THIS ...

Networks are now widely and rightly regarded as critical infrastructure, yet acceleration of broadband access deployments – including fixed, fixed-wireless access and 5G – are driving the need for ...

Alcatel-Lucent launched a series of Internet core routers designed for service providers and aimed directly at Cisco and Juniper. The company already competes with Cisco and Juniper on edge routers, ...