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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

http://ipexpert.ccieblog.com/ – In part I of our series, we looked at the default OSPF network type on frame-relay (non-broadcast). This begs the question of “OK ...

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 ...

Customer demand for cost-efficient primary and alternate transport services led the carrier to develop a frame relay over DSL solution, said Larry Denayer, manager of frame relay and ATM product ...

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.

Macquarie Corporate Telecommunications' (MCT) frame-relay service customers enjoyed a long lunch today as a configuration corruption in one of its network switches forced an hour-and-a-half outage. A ...