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 – ...

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.

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 ...

Which applications is it suited to? Frame Relay is useful for running applications requiring a medium level of bandwidth. It sits just above ISDN in the Wan protocol hierarchy, because ISDN offers up ...

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 ...

Networking currently is taught at many places, and the majority of hands-on learning is done with local area networks (LANs). Even though wide area networks (WANs) are commonly used, course work ...