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Question about WAN technologies - X.25, Frame Relay, ATM, ISDN, etc?
Hi,
I want to understand what the status of these technologies is. Is X.25 still being used on new networks? What about ISDN? Is Frame Relay more popular than ATM? Can someone please help me understand which is more popular/common and which is not?
ISDN is still used, but not as much as it used to be used and more in Europe than North America.
X.25 is considered by most people to be a protocol that is past its useful life. So very few networks support X.25 today. X.25 was a reliable packet network service, but each vendor determined how they would implement the protocol. I know of only one vendor (there may be others) that implemented X.25 using connectionless routing, but the connections were connection-oriented (SPVCs). Other vendors used PVCs which did not use connectionless routing and each leg of the path from source to destination had to be configured in each switch. X.25 was intended for data only, but there was at least one network that I know of that used Voice over X.25. X.25 was created to work on networks that could experience errors on links.
Frame Relay was also intended to be for data only on a reliable network, using fibre links. However many people tried to make it pass voice as well, but the intent of Frame Relay was large frames and reducing the size of the frame to make voice operate better negated the advantage of the large frames. The idea was to use frames that were as close to 4096 bytes as possible, but I know of one very large network that had an average frame size of 200 bytes.
ATM was built as a cell relay service and used very small cell sizes. It is still very common, as it works well with Telephone Carrier networks of T1's and T3's. You can connect IP, Frame Relay, Voice and protocols such as MPLS over ATM, and it can mix all of the above protocols. I would expect that ATM has the most number of connections today.
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