Frame Relay

Orion
Consultancy

Introduction to Frame Relay

Overview

Frame Relay has established itself as a cost effective choice in packet switching technology. This one-day overview explores the concepts, architecture and operation of Frame Relay and reveals how it solves many of the speed issues. It prepares the networking professional for informed consideration of Frame Relay in their environment.

Potential delegates

Network planner, designers, systems analysts, support staff, administrators and users who are responsible for building, maintaining and utilising Frame Relay communications on their network.

Prerequisites

An understanding of Local and Wide Area Networking techniques. This can be obtained by attending Orion’s introduction Data Communications course.

Duration

1 day

Course Objectives

By the end of the course delegates will be able to:

	Understand the uses and advantages of Frame Relay
	Design and configure Frame Relay based applications.
	Maintain their organisation's Frame Relay based infrastructure.
	Support the Frame Relay User community.

Course Content

Introduction

Objectives; standards; ISDN; concepts; frame interleaving; features.

Frame Relay Overview

Operation; PVC/SVC; protocol; control; interfaces; FRAD.

Frame Relay Standards

ITU-T; forum; ANSI; LAPD; transparency; header; extended addressing; DLCI; congestion; FCS.

Frame Relay Traffic Control

Throughput guarantee; CIR monitoring; traffic parameters.

Local Management Interface

LMI; timers; counters; VCI; fragmentation; multicasts.

Switched Frame Relay

SVC; protocol stack; Q.993; I.E. example.

Voice Over Frame Relay

Suitability; compression; transfer/access support; frame formats; FRF 11.0 requirements.