META Trend: The stability and affordability of wide-area network (WAN) services will accelerate data center consolidation and administrative centralization, increasing WAN costs. Frame relay services ...

In 1992, frame relay was portrayed as an interim technology that would be replaced by Switched Multimegabit Data Service. In 1995, industry insiders predicted frame relay would be devoured by ATM.

Frame relay had a good run, but the rise of MPLS VPNs has spelled the beginning of the end for the old WAN technology. VPNs burst on the scene in the late 1990s as a way to use the Internet securely ...

LAS VEGAS — While frame relay may be one of the most widely accepted ways of linking geographically dispersed corporate sites, MultiProtocol Label Switching (MPLS), a no-nonsense high-speed routing ...

Frame relay won in the WAN over ATM, which proved too expensive despite its good points, such as five levels of QoS. Now MPLS is pushing aside both. The debate about frame relay vs. ATM as WAN ...

Out go ATM, Frame Relay and leased lines. In come DSL, Ethernet and IP virtual private networks (VPNs). It may not be quite that simple but the world of data communications is in the midst of seeing ...

SAN MATEO, Calif. — WaveSmith Networks Inc. on Monday (Feb. 18) will add frame relay capabilities to its multiservice switch, continuing the trend of startup switch makers catering to old-world ...

A high-speed packet switching protocol used in wide area networks (WANs). Providing a granular service of up to DS3 speed (45 Mbps), it has become popular for LAN to LAN connections across remote ...

Customer demand for cost-efficient primary and alternate transport services led the carrier to develop a frame relay over DSL solution, said Larry Denayer, manager of frame relay and ATM product ...