Virtual Circuit is Created. Each circuit is known by its DLCI. i.e. Data Link Connection Identifier.
Frame relay.
Advantages of frame relay over x.25?Frame relay operates at a higher speed(1.544 mbps & currently 44.376mbps) By this it can easily be used instead of a mesh of T-1 or T-3 linesFrame relay operates in just the physical and data link layers. By this it is used as a back bone nwtwork to provide services to protoclols that already have a network layer protocol.It allows brusty data. in case of x.25 and t-line there is a fixed data rateFrame relay allows a frame size of 9000 bytes, which can accommodate all LAN framesFrame relay is less expensive than other traditional WAN
ATM as well as frame relay are switched WANs. Frame relay protocol was designed to replace X.25 . ATM is advantageous as it is a cell network and a cell network uses the cell as a basic unit of data exchange and are small and fixed size block of information .
what are the hardware and requirements for a WAN
Gigabit Ethernet interface Controller interface Serial interface Multilink Group interface MFR (Multilink Frame Relay bundle interface) Dialer interface Loopback interface Tunnel interface ATM interface
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A means of providing access to the Frame Relay network over a DSL connection
Frame Relay is a packet-switching technology. It works by sending information in packets, which are called frames, through a shared frame-relay network.
Both ATM and Frame Relay are ways to connect your local network router to an ISP
No. Frame Relay is not operating at Layer 3. Frame Relay is strictly a Layer 2 protocol suite, whereas X.25 provides services at Layer 3 (the network layer) as well. This enables Frame Relay to offer higher performance and greater transmission efficiency.
FECN
inverse ARP
LMI protocol, Invers ARP
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There are various differences between X.25 and Frame Relay. The most significant are: 1. Call Control X.25 connection establishment and release (call control) use in-band signaling within the same virtual channel used for user data transmission causing additional overhead. Frame Relay call control uses separate virtual channels identified by reserved DLCI using the LMI (Local Management Interface) protocol. 2. Routing vs. Switching X.25 performs packet switching on OSI layer 3 (network layer); Frame Relay performs packet switching on OSI layer 2 (data-link). Frame Relay does not use any layer 3 protocol. 3. Flow Control Frame Relay (FR) doesn't perform flow control between frame handlers (FR routers). X.25 routers have to acknowledge each frame; in case of frame errors frames have to be retransmitted and acknowledged. Frame Relay relies on flow control performed by higher layer protocols.Source: http://www.synapse.de/ban/HTML/P_LAYER2/Eng/P_lay264.html
LMI
Frame relay.