Scalable, Secure, and Reliable Connectivity for Your Global Offices
Today’s businesses depend on real-time communication, online collaboration, and cloud applications. As operations expand globally, businesses require network solutions that deliver consistent performance across all locations.
SPTel’s International MPLS provides scalable, wide-area network connectivity that keeps your regional and global offices connected. Our service covers over 3,000 cities worldwide with network diversity options, positioning us as your network partner of choice for global expansion.
SPTel’s partnerships with multiple providers allow us the flexibility to choose the best solutions for your international needs. With SPTel, you can scale your network confidently as your business grows.
What is MPLS?
Multiprotocol Label Switching (MPLS) is a high-performance data-carrying technique used within connected networks.
MPLS directs data from one network node to the next based on short label-switched paths rather than long network addresses. This eliminates the need for complex lookups in routing tables for every IP packet. Label-based forwarding delivers much faster and more efficient data transmission. As MPLS networks operate over private and resilient infrastructure, they are highly scalable to meet different requirements across sites, providing both network security and flexibility.
Benefits of a MPLS Network
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Flexibility
Our fully scalable WAN connects your global organisations using advanced technology and carrier-managed infrastructure. Customer data travels on separate data streams and routers, providing enhanced security for your network communications.
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Reliability
Committed network performance with traffic prioritisation based on your selected Class of Services ensures consistent connectivity across all locations. Optional diverse routes available for added protection for your connection.
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Quality Assurance
High-performance international connectivity backed by Service Level Agreements (SLAs) covering activation, availability, latency, packet loss, jitter, and mean time to restore.
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Ease of Management
View, control and manage your IMPLS circuits from a single, digitalised dashboard via SPTel’s Customer Portal.
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Scalability
MPLS combines the benefits of physical circuits with affordable IP routing. Automatic network configurations and label-switched paths deliver the cost-effectiveness of layer 3 Internet with enhanced performance and control.
Features
4 Classes of Service
International MPLS offers up to 4 Classes of Service (CoS) to optimise applications within a private network. From mission-critical Enterprise Resource Planning (ERP), Customer Relationship Management (CRM), SaaS, HD video, and VoIP to email and web traffic, prioritise applications according to your operational needs.
Cloud Connect
Pre-integrated regional connectivity that links to Public Cloud networks like AWS, Google, and Azure without the complexity and cost of self-deployment.
Remote Site Access
Enables remote customer sites to access users’ VPN via the Internet using IPSec protocol and gateway.
Backup Link Options
Protection options, including Auto Backup Port and IPSec Gateway via the Internet provide backup connectivity to your network.
Recommended for:
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Government and Critical Information Infrastructure (CII) Providers
That require connectivity to link overseas representative offices with their core headquarters in Singapore.
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Banking and FSI
That require network performance, security, and quality of service levels to cater to time-sensitive trading transactions.
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Enterprises with multiple sites
That have multiple sites in overseas locations and workloads hosted in and accessed via public clouds.
Available Service Schemes
IMPLS Layer 2
An Ethernet over MPLS service links Layer 2 VPN connectivity between any international destination.
Features
- Classes of Service for application traffic prioritisation
- VLAN compatible
- Comprehensive SLA
- Managed/unmanaged router services
- 24/7 fault management support
Class of Service (CoS) Upgrade:
- Offers higher class of service to allow prioritization of network traffic according to business and operational needs.
Cloud Connect:
- Offers pre-integrated and assured regional connectivity to Public Cloud providers like AWS, Google, and Azure without the expense and hassle of self-set-up.
Regional Internet Breakout:
- Offers direct internet gateway from the VPN at specific regional location(s) instead of aggregating through a hub site’s internet access
Remote Site Access:
- Enables remote customer sites to access their organization’s VPN via the Internet using IPSec protocol and gateway.
Backup Link Options:
- Provides main link protection using Auto Backup Port with a secondary link or IPSec Gateway by routing to the Internet as backup for the network addresses.
IMPLS Layer 3
An IP over MPLS service links Layer 3 VPN connectivity between the branches of international locations.
Features
- Scalable solution for network convergence
- Classes of Service for application traffic prioritisation
- Comprehensive SLA
- Managed/unmanaged router services
- 24/7 fault management support
Class of Service (CoS) Upgrade:
- Offers up to 3 higher classes of services to allow prioritization of network traffic according to business and operational needs.
Cloud Connect:
- Offers pre-integrated and assured regional connectivity by routing to Public Clouds providers like the public internet cloud providers like AWS, Google, and Azure without the expense and hassle of self-set-up.
Regional Internet Breakout:
- Offers a direct internet gateway from the VPN at specific regional location(s) instead of aggregating through a hub site’s internet access
Remote Site Access:
- Enables remote customer sites to access their organization’s VPN via the Internet using IPSec protocol and gateway.
Backup Link Options:
- Provides main link protection using Auto Backup Port with a secondary link or IPSec Gateway by routing to the Internet as backup for the network addresses.
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Reasons to Choose International MPLS
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Wide Global Reach for Business Growth
SPTel can deliver expanded global reach with our access to multiple carrier partners worldwide. It’s not about us, it’s about you. That’s why we partner extensively to give you the flexibility to choose the best solution for your international connectivity needs. With SPTel, you can gain access to >3,000 cities with the option of diverse routes and ease of management with a digitalised customer portal.
Frequently Asked Questions
MPLS operates at a layer between the data link layer and network layer. It establishes the forwarding equivalence class (FEC), grouping packets destined with similar destination characteristics and assigning them the same label. This label-switching approach enables efficient forwarding of packets across multiple networks without conventional IP routing at each hop.
Label edge routers (LERs) are responsible for analysing the incoming packet’s destination IP address, determining the FEC, and translating it into an MPLS label at the network edge. Once labeled, the data packets traverse the MPLS network following the designated labels, bypassing the need to consult complex routing tables at each hop.
The internet engineering task force (IETF) has also developed standards for MPLS, ensuring interoperability across different vendors and network environments.
The key difference between MPLS (Multiprotocol Label Switching) and VPN (Virtual Private Network) lies in their primary functions and underlying technologies.
- Multiprotocol Label Switching (MPLS): a protocol that enables efficient routing and forwarding of data packets across service provider networks. It assigns labels to packets, allowing routers to switch them based on these labels rather than analysing the entire packet header at each hop. This streamlined approach optimises network traffic flows and provides quality of service (QoS) capabilities.
- Virtual Private Networks (VPNs): create a secure, encrypted tunnel over a public or untrusted network like the internet. It ensures data privacy and protects against unauthorised access by encapsulating and encrypting all traffic between the VPN client and server. VPNs are commonly used for remote access, site-to-site connectivity, and securing cloud services.
While MPLS focuses on optimising network traffic flows, VPNs prioritise data security and privacy through encryption. However, MPLS and VPN technologies can be combined, with MPLS providing the underlying transport and VPNs adding an encryption layer for secure communication over the MPLS backbone.
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