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FRAD
Last modified: Sunday, August 24, 1997
Short for Frame Relay Assembler/Disassembler, a communicationsdevice that breaks a data stream into frames for transmission over a Frame Relay network and recreates a data stream from incoming frames. A Frame Relay router serves the same purpose but provides more intelligence in avoiding congestion.