Editing Frame Relay (section)

==Market reputation==
[[File:Logo of the Frame Relay Forum.svg|thumb|right|The [[Frame Relay Forum]] promoted the standards]]
Frame Relay aimed to make more efficient use of existing physical resources, permitting the over-provisioning of data services by telecommunications companies to their customers, as clients were unlikely to be using a data service 45 percent of the time. In more recent years, Frame Relay has acquired a bad reputation in some markets because of excessive bandwidth [[overbooking]].{{Citation needed|date=April 2009}}

Telecommunications companies often sell Frame Relay to businesses looking for a cheaper alternative to [[dedicated line]]s; its use in different geographic areas depended greatly on governmental and telecommunication companies' policies. Some of the early companies to make Frame Relay products included [[StrataCom]] (later acquired by [[Cisco Systems]]) and [[Cascade Communications]] (later acquired by [[Ascend Communications]] and then by [[Lucent Technologies]]).

As of June 2007, [[AT&T]] was the largest Frame Relay service provider in the US, with local networks in 22 states, plus national and international networks.{{Citation needed|date=April 2012}}