Frame relay may be one of the most widely accepted ways of linking geographically dispersed corporate locations, but Multiprotocol Label Switching (MPLS) – a no-nonsense, high-speed routing protocol – ...

In 1992, frame relay was portrayed as an interim technology that would be replaced by Switched Multimegabit Data Service. In 1995, industry insiders predicted frame relay would be devoured by ATM.

Multi-protocol label switching (MPLS) deployments to date have been focused on providing traffic engineering and network-based IP virtual private network (VPN) capabilities to IP core networks, and to ...