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mpls ip vpn

Ping's MPLS VPNs are deployed across our wholly owned infrastructure. Our  MPLS VPN infrastructure is also fully QoS enabled. MPLS was designed to be able to take advantage of “Differentiated Services” from the outset by manipulation of “experimental bits” in the MPLS VPN packet header. Ping have enabled this as per the Cisco QoS Baseline – a white paper published by Cisco that recommends best practices with regard to deployment of QoS.

ipsec vpn

If you're looking to keep your costs down an IPSec VPN may be the solution for you. IPSec VPNs are frequently used by home workers to gain full access to their office resources but can also be used to build secure private networks between offices. An IPSec VPN is essentially a private network built using encrypted tunnels between two end points, typically across the internet.

pseudowire technologies

Ping provide a variety of pseudowire technologies including EoMPLS, L2TPv3, and VPLS.

EoMPLS is a cost effective alternative to dedicated Ethernet circuits deployed between datacentres. We are able to offer this service from most of the Datacentres in London. EoMPLS is also recommended when customers wish to configure 802.1q trunking and run multiple VLANs.

L2TPv3 is an alternative Layer 2 pseudowire technology to those created using MPLS, and is typically found in IP only networks where MPLS is not available. The protocol overhead is significantly larger which inevitably impacts performance, however L2TPv3 is ideal for building layer 2 transport over IP networks such as the Internet.

Metro VPLS (Virtual Private LAN Service) can be considered a virtual switch (or bridge) providing any to any (multipoint) connections over a dispersed geographical area. VPLS is deployed over an underlying MPLS infrastructure and effectively emulates many of the features of a switch, such as a single broadcast domain.

metro vlan

Metro VLAN employs the open standard (IEEE) 802.1q (otherwise known as VLAN tagging) to transport customer traffic around our Metropolitan Network. We deploy Q-in-Q tunnelling (also known as 802.1q tunnelling, or VLAN stacking) between most of our datacentres, which enables us to overcome the problem of customers having overlapping VLAN IDs.

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