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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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.

Many companies are looking for ways to improve data communications while reducing costs. Historically, companies looked to frame-relay networks to provide an inexpensive solution for data ...

eWEEK content and product recommendations are editorially independent. We may make money when you click on links to our partners. Learn More. Frame relay is 10 years old. The first virtual networking ...