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 ...

Erin Dunne, director of research at Vertical Systems Group, says companies migrating from frame relay and ATM are moving to Ethernet faster than those using private lines, including T-1s and higher.

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 ...

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 ...

Out go ATM, Frame Relay and leased lines. In come DSL, Ethernet and IP virtual private networks (VPNs). It may not be quite that simple but the world of data communications is in the midst of seeing ...

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 ...

AT&T has asked the Federal Communications Commission for permission to halt sales of frame relay and Asynchronous Transfer Mode services on or after May 31, 2012, with FCC permission, because of ...

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 ...

Voice and data convergence is still in its infancy. Adoption rates are steadily increasing, and the technology has improved. However, uniting voice and data traffic over a WAN using transport ...

Start-up WaveSmith Networks has unveiled its product line — two switches for migrating ATM multiservice nets to IP and Multi-protocol Label Switching. WaveSmith emerged earlier this year with a ...

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 ...

When you purchase through links on our site, we may earn an affiliate commission. Here’s how it works. Asynchronous-transfer mode (ATM) is a core telecommunications technology that evolved from analog ...