
Frame Relay Overview
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Figure 2-7. Big Pipe/Little Pipe Topology
The central site router sends traffic at its available bandwidth, in this example at
T1 rates (1.536 Mb/s). Some switches recognize that the remote site is configured
at a lower speed, and begin to drop frames above the capacity of the remote site
router. At the remote site, the frame relay interface discards frames beyond its
available buffer. The assumption is that the user application detects the lost frames
and either retransmits them or uses a flow control mechanism in the protocol, such
as windowing, to throttle (queue) the traffic. But not all applications have a robust
mechanism to deal with lost or out-of-sequence frames.
You can use Bay Networks WAN Compression Protocol (WCP), protocol
prioritization, congestion control, and traffic shaping either singly or in
combination to help control the flow of traffic and avoid loss of data.
Data Compression
You can configure both hardware- and software-based data compression over
WANs running frame relay.
Enabling compression improves bandwidth efficiency by eliminating redundant
strings in data streams. This, in turn, improves network response times and
reduces line costs. Enabling compression on a frame relay link also provides
reliability. Both sides of a link using compression maintain a history of data that
has already traveled across the network, and WCP (WAN Compression Protocol)
detects and retransmits dropped packets.
FR0013A
64 Kb/s
B
64 Kb/s
D
64 Kb/s
C
1.536/2.048 b/s
A
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