If you missed any of the nine we have already discussed they are listed in abbreviated form at the bottom of this newsletter. The surge in international service deployment and consumption.
Network managers are under increasing pressure to build global networks.
Their enterprises are growing more distributed due to an increasingly global economy and the trend towards mergers and acquisitions. In addition, frame relay technology has reached a point where the services and features important to U.S. network managers are becoming available in other parts of the world. Such moves should encourage more international links from U.S. sites. In addition, SVCs are becoming available overseas from carriers such as Telefonica in Spain. SVCs represent an easier transition from long-used X.25 to frame relay than PVCs do because of their switched nature.