Business Frame Relay Service
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This connection-oriented packet mode service enables you to share text, graphics and other types of data over wide geographic areas at high speeds
Like most companies, you probably need to transmit many different kinds of data between many different locations. And this data traffic is likely to be unpredictable, both in terms of file size and frequency of transmission. This means that dedicated lines could leave you with too much bandwidth as your traffic flow changes.
AT&T Business Frame Relay Service offers you an affordable yet fast and flexible alternative. This connection-oriented packet mode service enables you to share text, graphics and other types of data over wide geographic areas at high speeds. And it does so while achieving cost-efficiency and performance advantages over other architectures.
Features
- Provides a fast, reliable alternative to dedicated lines.
- Offers high-speed connectivity - up to DS3.
- Makes it easy to add or delete locations and modify sites.
- Enables cost-effective data sharing over wide geographic areas.
- Allows you to create your own routes and set up permanent virtual circuits - your own series of point-to-point virtual connections - throughout your network.
- Provides better performance because it is based on X.25 LAPS standards, yet it doesn't require the error correction and control information overhead of the X.25 protocol.
- Establishes a "nailed-up" connection between two locations in the network, which allows large variable-length frames to be sent back and forth with very little control information and validation needed at intermediate nodes.
- Includes 24x7 network monitoring and maintenance.
- Utilizes existing equipment.
Benefits
- Lets you choose your speeds, so you'll have exactly what you need now - plus room to grow.
- Does not require the error correction and control information overhead of the X.25 protocol, so you get better network performance.
- Provides greater network throughput and fewer delays, because PVC Frame Relay Service establishes a "nailed-up" connection between two locations in the network. Your network will be able to support more transmissions without requiring additional circuit capacity.
- Keeps you from wasting money on idle lines.
- Saves money by using equipment that you already own.
- Is more economical than other LAN-to-LAN solutions.
- Eliminates costly under-utilized dedicated links because it uses dedicated access to a shared network.
- Reduces your operating costs significantly, since Frame Relay Service works via a single-line interface that reduces the number of ports required and eliminates multiple access lines.
- Allows you to easily add endpoint users for a fraction of what it would normally cost to add.