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 ...

How to make sense of wide-area service options and get the best bang for your buck – and your applications. Private lines, frame relay, Internet, VPNs, Multi-protocol Label Switching: Never have ...

It wasn’t so long ago that calling a telco to order frame-relay circuits was the only feasible way to securely connect remote offices to headquarters. The typical frame-relay network consists of T1 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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.