Camille Mendler, Yankee Group director for European fixed telecoms, said: "The history of alliances, including Concert [AT&T and BT] and the original Global One [Deutsche Telekom, France Telecom and Sprint], is pretty poor.
All new RFPs from Fortune 500 companies say they want to move from a Frame Relay WAN to an IP VPN. For multinationals, moving from international Frame Relay circuits to an MPLS IP VPN does not necessarily save money in the short term though longer...
In each location, we have an IP VPN router, SDH optical equipment and a Frame Relay node. In practice, the former involves finding a method of utilising traditional SDH infrastructure to transport IP using time-honoured protocols such as ATM and...
Out go ATM, Frame Relay and leased lines. At the top of the technologies labelled as 'in decline' is Frame Relay, which will generate 26 per cent less revenue than in the earlier 12-month period. In come DSL, Ethernet and IP virtual private...
Pauli Nuutinen, VP corporate IT services at Metso, said the decision to consolidate with AT&T and IP VPN was taken against a background of years of acquisitions and a move away from frame relay. Its rivals include BT, Cable and Wireless, France...
Global network operators such as AT&T, BT/Infonet, C&W, Equant, MCI, NTT and Sprint - all regularly in the news with IP VPN contract wins - will see strong demand as organisations typically migrate their private networks from Frame Relay and ATM.
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