Legacy MPLS, or Multiprotocol Label Switching, networks lock you into long terms, slow provisioning, and rigid capacity. PacketFabric replaces those circuits with on-demand EPL and EVPL and multi-cloud routing on a private 65+ Tbps backbone. The Virtual Cloud Router connects the same sites and clouds an MPLS network reaches, without the wait.
Why replace MPLS with PacketFabric?
PacketFabric replaces MPLS circuits with on-demand EPL and EVPL and multi-cloud routing on a private 65+ Tbps backbone. The Virtual Cloud Router connects the same sites and clouds an MPLS network reaches, without the wait.
Provision in minutes.
No RFP, no engineering queue. Turn up private point-to-point circuits from the portal or API.
Pay for what you use. Hourly, monthly, or longer terms replace multi-year lock-in.
Scale on demand.
EPL and EVPL to 100 Gbps, with burstable bandwidth when you need it.
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The limits of MPLS today
MPLS also carries the costs of its era:
- Runs expensive per megabit
- Takes weeks or months to turn up a new site
- Vendor lock-in to multi-year contracts and fixed bandwidth
- Carrier management prevents self-service
- Predates the cloud
MPLS backhauls cloud traffic through a central data center rather than reaching public clouds head-on, which adds latency and cost as workloads move to AWS, Azure, and Google Cloud.
What MPLS does well
MPLS earned its place through three main benefits:
- Predictable performance with low latency and jitter
- Supports traffic engineering
- Quality of service to prioritize critical traffic
MPLS also builds private, any-to-any networks through Layer 3 and Layer 2 VPNs.
Common MPLS migration questions
Yes, across hundreds of data center PoPs, plus every major cloud.
No. Terms run hourly, monthly, or longer, and you scale as you go.
MPLS, or Multiprotocol Label Switching, is a private carrier network that forwards traffic using path labels instead of routing-table lookups. It gives predictable performance, but it is expensive, slow to provision, locked into multi-year terms, and not built for the cloud. That is why teams replace it.
Multiprotocol Label Switching.
MPLS is a private carrier network with guaranteed performance. SD-WAN is a software overlay over broadband and internet. PacketFabric offers a third path: a private, on-demand backbone that keeps MPLS-grade performance and adds cloud-like speed.
SD-WAN, dedicated internet, or network as a service. PacketFabric replaces MPLS with private EPL and EVPL and multi-cloud routing you provision in minutes.
MPLS is still in wide use for real-time traffic between fixed sites. Many teams are moving off it because it is slow to provision, locked into long contracts, and not built for the cloud.