After the MPLS Era – How Enterprise WAN Quietly Evolved (Since 2018)
MPLS did not disappear overnight. It was not overthrown, and it was not suddenly declared obsolete. What began around 2018 was not a collapse, but a quiet transition. A gradual shift of weight. A slow change in expectations. MPLS did not become worse – the world around MPLS simply became different. Enterprises no longer worked […]
2005–2018 – When Control Ruled the Wide Area Network: The Age of MPLS Dominance
There was a time when enterprise networks were not free. They were planned, engineered, contract-bound, and predictable down to the last detail. Between roughly 2005 and 2018, this way of thinking shaped global enterprise connectivity almost completely – and with it, one technology that became nearly without alternative: MPLS. Multiprotocol Label Switching was not simply […]
2015 – Mobile First in the Enterprise: The Moment Wired Networks Began to Lose Control
AI is no longer a promise of the future. It is reality. And it is reshaping IT operations faster than many teams expected. Yet the real cultural rupture inside the enterprise did not begin with artificial intelligence. It began a decade earlier, in 2015, when companies finally accepted that work was no longer bound to […]