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.

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...