To add to Anthony's comment, one can make an explicit connection between the large number of walks between vertices and the spectra of Abelian Cayley graphs. It turns out that constant-degree Abelian Cayley graph are not only bad expanders,but they tend to be disconnected (they have a positive proportion of their eigenvalues close to their valency). See: http://www.math.udel.edu/%7Ecioaba/inpress_version.pdf for a short proof. Alon and Roichman showed earlier that Abelian Cayley graphs have large diameter (power of the order of the graph); the diameter of an expander should be logarithmic in the order of the graph.