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 ...

VPNs have pretty much buried frame relay as a WAN technology, according to a survey by Forrester Research. According to the report, 48% of businesses surveyed use site-to-site VPNs for WAN ...

It wasn’t so long ago that calling a telco to order frame-relay circuits was the only feasible way to securely connect remote offices to headquarters. The typical frame-relay network consists of T1 ...

A wide area network spans a large geographic area such as a city, state, or country. It can be private to connect parts of a business, or it can be public to connect smaller networks. The easiest way ...

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 ...

#27m Frame Relay/ATM upgrade gives retail chain "headroom" for storeexpansion. Boots The Chemists is to implement one of the largest Frame Relay networks in the world after signing a deal worth around ...

We forgot to notice a significant milestone a couple of months ago. This newsletter is now over 10 years old. Joanie Wexler and I took over the newsletter in May of 1998, after the prior authors – who ...

High-speed WAN links are becoming more common and less expensive, but not necessarily more reliable. Enter the WAN link aggregators. The ability to link offices with a combination of leased lines and ...

New Edge Networks aims to simplify pricing for its Private Network service customers. The service provider recently launched a trial that offers users with 50 or more network sites a flat rate ...

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 ...