What are the on-goings costs of MPLS?
Like any dedicated private network, annual rental costs will always seem high, however the explosion of IP convergence using fibre networks has led to far higher levels of productivity than we have ever seen previously. However, in order to prioritise traffic and reduce interruption to time sensitive applications gives Tier 1 the opportunity to charge for class of service (COS) over global layer 3 MPLS networks and appear as part of the annual rental cost.