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 Wall Street investment firm Thursday suggested Lucent should sell its market-leading ATM/frame relay data networking assets to Cisco as a way for the bludgeoned company to get a quick infusion of ...

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 ...

SAN MATEO, Calif. — WaveSmith Networks Inc. on Monday (Feb. 18) will add frame relay capabilities to its multiservice switch, continuing the trend of startup switch makers catering to old-world ...

Asynchronous-transfer mode (ATM) is a core telecommunications technology that evolved from analog voice service, X.25 and frame relay. ATM is the evolutionary technology that is best able to fulfill ...

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 ...

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 ...

PARIS, France — Alcatel is delivering a software upgrade for its 7670 route-switching platform Monday (April 28) that will deliver better interworking between Frame Relay and Ethernet services in ...