Frame Relay Applications: Business and Technology Case Studies (Morgan Kaufmann Series in Networking)

Learn how frame relay impacts businesses from a strategic and tactical perspective

Through a combination of real-life and conceptual case studies, network and telecommunications managers get a first-hand look at the standards, technologies, and implementation issues surrounding frame relay technology. Use lessons learned from these case studies to understand how your company can profit from deploying this streamlined, cost-effective network infrastructure.

In-depth case studies focus on business and technology aspects
* Caliber Technology, Inc. (Caliber System, Inc.) migrates from a traditional IBM environment
* Greyhound Lines, Inc. migrates from X.25 to IP over frame relay
* TeleChoice, Inc. shows how a small LAN Internetworking environment deploys frame relay
* debis Systemhaus (Daimler Benz) establishes a global multiservice backbone network
* UUNET Technologies, Inc. provides accessible, useful, secure, and reliable Internet communications with a large-scale IP LAN Internetwork
* Allen Lund Company adopts data and voice over frame relay

During five years at StrataCom Jim Cavanagh designed, engineered, and implemented WilPak, the world's first public frame relay network as well as the world's first private and hybrid public/private frame relay networks. Jim is presently a faculty member with Telecommunications Research Associates (TRA) as well as a consultant to carriers, service providers, manufacturers, end users, and governmental organizations. Jim's teaching, writing, and consulting focuses on the planning and implementation of emerging technologies.