If you know what MPLS is, great. If you are already selling it, even better. But if you are not quite sure how this technology fits into your IP services pitch, check out this session for a tutorial on the technology, market demand and selling strategies at:

The Spring 2007 Channel Partners Conference & Expo
March 4-6
The Venetian Resort Hotel Casino
Las Vegas

Keeping pace with business change and increasingly complex traffic demands has given rise to the fast-growing MPLS VPN services market. MPLS enables customers to give different types of traffic different bandwidth priorities for different times of day, day of week, etc.

MPLS, short for Multi-Protocol Label Switching, enables businesses to consolidate and prioritize their communications – voice, video, and various grades of data communications – onto a single VPN, bypassing the public Internet. The VPN service is based on MPLS technology, which provides any-to-any connectivity, security and QoS among geographically diverse sites.

MPLS VPN gives customers the flexibility to select a network design that mirrors their traffic patterns, so remote sites can communicate directly with each other or through a host site, depending on individual requirements. It also ensures customer data remains secure. QoS can be added to prioritize critical traffic such as voice and video over less demanding traffic such as e-mail and Web surfing.

Brett Theiss, director of product management for New Edge Networks, Heather Selbert, vice president of operations for American Telesis, and David Zahn, vice president of marketing for TelePacific Communications, will explain the value proposition for partners and customers during the session, MPLS VPN: Find Out What it Means to You (and Your Customers) on Monday, March 5 at 9 a.m. . Better yet, they'll explain how business and networking challenges create WAN problems for businesses that they can address with managed MPLS VPNs.

Learn about this and other hot topics at the Channel Partners Conference & Expo, the communications industry’s only event devoted exclusively to solutions providers – agents, VARs, systems integrators, interconnects, wireless dealers and consultants. The spring event is expected to draw more than 3,000 participants and more than 140 exhibitors.

For up-to-date information on the show, visit www.channelpartnersconference.com.

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