Frame Relay Networks

A comprehensive description of Frame Relay networking
and associated technologies

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Course Benefits
Frame Relay uses statistical multiplexing techniques to offer significant potential savings over long distance E.n circuits, for appropriate data transaction types.

Although originally designed as an enhancement to ISDN, Frame Relay has found wide-spread proliferation in its own right, particularly in router-to-router WAN trunk systems.

This course provides an essential coverage of Frame Relay networking technologies, markets, systems and their operation.

The course also covers Frame Relay network troubleshooting techniques, and provides an objective discussion on the applications that are best served by Frame Relay, and the future applications for Frame Relay.

Who should attend?
This course is essential for all staff who will install, configure, administrate, support, sell or market Frame Relay networking products services, or solutions.

Pre-requisites
Delegates must have a good understanding of datacommunications principles prior to attending. Course 301: Introduction to Data Communications and Networking, is recommended.

Course 333: Content

Introduction
Development of ISDN
Development of ISDN Extended Packet Mode Bearer Services from X.25 on the D channel, to Frame Relay on the D channel
Frame Relay on the B Channels

Frame Relay scope, features and facilities and operation
Requirements of a Link level protocol
The Frame Relay Virtual Circuit
Data Link Channel Identification, DLCI
Extended DLCI options
HDLC LAPF frame format
Errored frame detection
Errored frame discards
Congestion originated Discards
Controlling congestion
Forward Explicit Congestion Notification
Backward Explicit Congestion Notification
Setting the Discard Eligibility BIT

Committed Information Rate
CIR concepts
Peak Information Rates, PIR
Managing CIR and PIR
Frame Relay billing options

Frame Relay "Bolt On", features, facilities and operation
What is missing in the basic Frame Relay system?
Link Management Interface (LMI)
LMI link integrity checking
LMI synchronous PVC status reporting
LMI asynchronous PVC status reporting
LMI SVC operation
Q.933 signalling
Q.933 signalling operation
Components of the Q.933 message
Consolidated Link Layer Management (CLLM)

Protocol operation over Frame Relay
Network Layer Protocol Identifier (NLPID)
IP over Frame Relay
Ethernet over Frame Relay
X.25 over Frame Relay
Voice over Frame Relay
Assessing user throughput requirements
Switch and trunk sizing
Building in resilience

Frame Relay Case Study

Frame Relay, the future
This section examines the future of Frame Relay as a global technology, and how it compares, and inter-works with systems such as X.25, ISDN, ATM and the Internet.



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