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 ...

Universal Music Group's (UMG) Australian operations are planning to replace legacy network links based on frame relay with a modern multi-protocol label switching (MPLS) implementation. Equant's Gene ...

COLORADO SPRINGS, Colo. —The Frame Relay Forum and Multi-Protocol Label Switching Forum finalized plans Wednesday (Jan. 29) to merge their two organizations, creating the MPLS and Frame Relay Alliance ...

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 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 – ...

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 ...

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 ...

Out with the old (frame relay, ATM and subscriber lines) and in with the new (e.g., Ethernet or IP MPLS VPN services). That's the latest trend in enterprise networking, according to market watcher ...

More and more enterprises are looking to service providers to interconnect their VoIP sites. Outsourcing and expensing the service seems like a more attractive option than owning the network, but ...

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 ...