Packet technology for a packager
By Tony Hallett
Published: 23 May 2003 15:10 GMT
Bobst Group, an equipment-provider for manufacturers, has extended its 10-year network relationship with Infonet.
Bobst has signed a four-year contract for an MPLS-enabled IP VPN, pulling together 22 sites in Europe, the Americas and Asia. The financial details of the deal were not disclosed but it is thought to be worth more than E1m annually.
The packaging company chose Infonet to streamline costs and for the company's "straightforward business approach", said Bobst head of IT Jorg Muller.
MPLS stands for Multiprotocol Label Switching and is used for prioritising and speeding up network traffic, making it easier to guarantee a certain quality of service. Besides the increasingly popular IP, it works with protocols such as ATM and Frame Relay.
Layer 3 IP Routing, (WAN, Frame Relay, IP routing using MPLS, BGP, OSPF, EIGRP and VoIP), Cisco PIX Firewalls, VPNs and all Cisco routers. You will ...
Checkpoint firewall appliances, servers; Knowledge (with experience) in the troubleshooting of WAN protocols and technologies such as ATM, ...
You will need good skills in core MPLS, BGP and IP VPN as well as a good understanding of security, including VPN and PIX technology. A growing ISP ...
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