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 ...

VPNs have pretty much buried frame relay as a WAN technology, according to a survey by Forrester Research. According to the report, 48% of businesses surveyed use site-to-site VPNs for WAN ...

Stealth technologies are gaining an increasingly important position in our network infrastructures. As a network professional, you are being asked to use network resources more and more efficiently.

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.

Big carriers tend to justify the telecommunications merger frenzy by saying users want to get all types of services bundled together into a single package from one player. But many users actually ...

WASHINGTON — Though Internet Protocol networks were all over the ComNet 2001 show this week, proponents of frame relay networks described a road map that will keep the huge installed base of such ...

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 ...

PARIS, France — Alcatel is delivering a software upgrade for its 7670 route-switching platform Monday (April 28) that will deliver better interworking between Frame Relay and Ethernet services in ...

The reliability of Frame Relay networks in running business-critical applications was called into question after the collapse of AT&T's US Frame Relay network, which paralysed users for over 20 hours.

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 ...