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.

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 ...

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 ...

Schmidt says that while the shift from frame relay and ATM has been going on for several years, it is accelerating this year. “Companies are moving data to the cloud, they have more video applications ...

Like their vendor and service provider members, even the telecom forums are not immune to industry consolidation. The MPLS Forum and Frame Relay Forum plan to merge their organizations to coordinate ...