http://ipexpert.ccieblog.com/ – OSPF is a topic that must be absolutely mastered for the CCIE lab exam. Many students understand the fundamental concepts, but get ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

Like their vendor and service provider members, even the telecom forums are not immune to industry consolidation. The MPLS Forum and Frame Relay Forum plan to merge their organizations to coordinate ...

Corporate purchases of IP virtual private network services continue to surge forward, a trend that analysts say is being accompanied by a shift away from the use of frame relay technology to carry ...

BT is poised to push Frame Relay by slashing the prices of its service and publishing its tariffs for the first time. BT denies this move threatens its SMDS (switched multimegabit data service) ...