ATM/Frame relay

Breaking ATM and frame relay news

Two industry forums plan to merge
Jul. 15, 2004
Two industry forums plan to merge in hopes of speeding the creation of multi-service, multi-vendor carrier networks that blend frame relay, ATM and MPLS into their offerings to customers.

Juniper fortifies edge
Feb. 17, 2004
Juniper Networks this week unveiled an edge router designed to meld Layer 2 services, such as frame relay and ATM, with an IP/MPLS backbone.

Lucent/Juniper alliance bears fruit
Nov. 03, 2003
Lucent and Juniper last week unveiled the first fruits of their six-month union: product combinations designed to let service providers better integrate legacy services and infrastructures with newer IP offerings.

Nokia kills Amber Networks router
Jan. 15, 2003
Nokia has discontinued an edge router it obtained from the $421 million acquisition of start-up Amber Networks two years ago.

Lucent, Cisco in ATM deal?
Oct. 17, 2002
A Wall Street investment firm Thursday suggested Lucent should sell its market-leading ATM/frame relay data networking assets to Cisco as a way for the bludgeoned company to get a quick infusion of cash and to exit a ...

Start-up unveils frame relay switch
Feb. 25, 2002
Edge switch start-up WaveSmith Networks last week rolled out the frame relay iteration of its multiservice device, which lets service providers continue to offer legacy data services to corporations as they prepare a ...

Carriers brace for federal buying spree
Dec. 04, 2007
Carriers are preparing for a flood of buying activity under the federal government's massive Networx telecommunications program in 2008.

50 Greatest Network Arguments: What readers are saying
Nov. 02, 2007
Readers debate the 50 Greatest Arguments in Networking and suggest a few more of their own involving Microsoft and other technologies.

Frame relay vs. ATM
Oct. 26, 2007
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.

Use of IP VPNs, carrier Ethernet to rise, survey says
Oct. 18, 2007
While many enterprises are still using legacy technologies such as ATM and frame relay, most of them plan on switching at least some of their locations to next-generation WAN within the next two years, according to a ...

ATM and frame relay opinion

Qwest offers incentives to keep enterprise customers
May. 18, 2005
Plus: Entrisphere closes $75 million in Series C financing; another solid quarter from Cisco

Multiservice marriage
Jul. 23, 2004
The MPLS & Frame Relay Alliance and The ATM Forum plan to merge in an effort to synchronize their definitions of multiservice networking.

Metro Ethernet on the rise
Jul. 25, 2003
Metro Ethernet is getting increased interest lately, perhaps becoming a big-growth area for telecom spending.

Juniper kills the 'WaveSmith-killer'
Jul. 04, 2003
Plus: LuxN provides access to Sorrento; and Qwest goes long in the Land of Lakes

Tenor, Gotham 'rightsize'
Jun. 17, 2002
Multiservice switch start-up Tenor Networks last week laid off 49 people, or 41% of its staff, in an effort to conserve cash during the current telecom slump.Also, multiservice edge switch start-up Gotham Networks ...