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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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.

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 ...

ABN Amro has installed a frame relay network from Equant to link its Asia Pacific headquarters and worldwide IT operations in Singapore with its operations in Australia, China, Hong Kong, India, ...

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.

Businesses are waking up to the advantages of sending voice and video via Frame Relay. Alan Clark weighs up the pros and cons. Whether it is a connection to link multiple Lans or as a feed to theo via ...