It’s ironic that just before we heard about the planned merger of the ATM Forum with the MPLS and Frame Relay Alliance, we were questioning ourselves whether the difference between cells and frames ...

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 ...

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 ...