LabN Consulting, L.L.C. is a specialized network technology services company established in 1999 to help clients achieve their strategic business objectives by leveraging leading edge technology. LabN consults with network equipment manufacturers, service providers and the US Government. LabN guides its customers’ technology and product strategies, their research programs, their hardware and software architectures, their standards awareness and efforts, and helps translate these into deliverable products through contract development and joint software development. FRRouting/Quagga Virtual Network Control (VNC) is an opensource example of LabN developed software.