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 ...

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While rates for many telecom services have long plummeted, some users find themselves paying up to twice as much today for low-speed frame relay as they did 18 to 24 months ago, according to industry ...

Which applications is it suited to? Frame Relay is useful for running applications requiring a medium level of bandwidth. It sits just above ISDN in the Wan protocol hierarchy, because ISDN offers up ...

The use of switched virtual circuits will put Frame Relay on theright track for handling voice data. Tipped to rival ISDN, the ability forswitched calling may mean that Frame Relay will have its say.