The packet data market is feeling pressure from IP VPN and Ethernet services; but because most businesses are transitioning their networks to emerging services and not performing full, one-time ...

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 ...

When balancing traffic, network administrators often wish to avoid reordering Ethernet frames. For example, TCP suffers additional overheads when dealing with out-of-order packets. This goal is ...

Ten years ago, we were in the midst of the controversy over whether frame-based technologies, such as frame relay and IP or cell-based technologies (ATM in particular), would form the foundation of ...

Everything you stream and share is broken into network packets. Learn how this enables the seamless flow of data that powers the internet. Network packets are small units of data that are sent from ...