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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

Data rates support by frame relay are those of standard T1 and T3 lines, which are one and five megabits per second. Individual connections are limited to 56 Kbps at 544 Mbps and 45 Mbps, respectively ...

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 ...

Waters Corp., a Milford, Mass., company that makes testing products for pharmaceutical, chemical and other companies, has been putting its WAN through some testing. The subject of the test: whether to ...

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.

The Arkansas Department of Motor Vehicles has gone digital. Driver's photos are taken with electronic cameras that transfer the image directly to the license. Gone forever are the chemicals, ...