Abstract The ever-increasing growth of the Internet and corporate Intranets are presenting a serious challenge to service providers and equipment vendors. This paradigm shift has transformed the way the world does business and defines new requirements for any business that wants to gain a competitive edge. Service providers, especially, are faced with the challenge of creating differentiated IP services and getting these new value-added services to market quickly. Cisco' s Tag Switching technology is a …showed first 75 words of 5185 total…

…showed last 75 words of 5185 total…e; Tag Switching:, Tag Switching: Evolving Your Network, see http//www.cisco.com/warp/public/732/Tech/tag/overview.html [8] Cisco On-line Documentation Paper; Tag Switching: Uniting Routing and Switching for Scalable, High-Performance Services; see - http//www.cisco.com/univercd/cc/td/doc/cisintwk/ito_doc/tagswtch.htm [9] S. Agrawal, et al, "IP Switching," Proc. Paper. for further information see http://www.cisco.com/warp/public/cc/cisco/mkt/wan/mgx8800/prodlit/tagsi_ds.htm