Emerging WAN Technologies
As the network administrator, in your small- to medium-sized business, you have already moved from leased-line WAN to Frame Relay connectivity for WAN network communication. You are responsible to keep current with all future network upgrades.
To stay current with emerging and developing technologies, you find that there are some alternate options available for WAN connectivity. Some of these include:
- Frame Relay
- Broadband DSL
- Broadband cable modem
- GigaMAN
- VPN
- MPLS
Because you want to offer the best quality, lowest-cost WAN network service to your company, you decide to research, at least, two emerging and developing technologies. It is your intent to gather information about these two alternate WAN options to intelligently discuss the future goals of your network with your business manager and other network administrators.