This book will emphasize services instead of bits-&-bytes, and contrast frame relay to competing technologies in the fast packet suite. Goralski will start from the premise that readers have certain business problems to solve (in other words, applications to deliver to demanding business users) and proceed to explain (a) how frame technologies can be gathered into existing systems and (b) how frame-enabled systems can be exploited for cost-effective solutions.Older literature on frame relay approaches the technology from the perspective of the public data networks. This will be one of the first books to consider frame relay as the private data network of tomorrow.
