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 may be one of the most widely accepted ways of linking geographically dispersed corporate locations, but Multiprotocol Label Switching (MPLS) – a no-nonsense, high-speed routing protocol – ...

While rates for many telecom services have long plummeted, some users find themselves paying up to twice as much today for low-speed frame relay as they did 18 to 24 months ago, according to industry ...

Multi-protocol label switching (MPLS) deployments to date have been focused on providing traffic engineering and network-based IP virtual private network (VPN) capabilities to IP core networks, and to ...

The purpose of the network layer is to help route messages between different local networks. Central to this layer is the concept of exclusive network addresses, where every terminal connected to the ...