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VividNET Frame Relay Connectivity

FAQ: Frame Relay
Router, CSU/DSU

Who can benefit from using Frame Relay?

How much bandwidth does my company need?

Frame Relay pricing

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VividNET's success is based on its well defined mission: provide world-class Internet service and support to the growing number of companies that consider the Internet a critical part of their business strategy. When it's time to link your business to the Internet, increase bandwidth to your existing connection. or shop for a new access provider, choose VividNET. We provide a customer oriented business connectivity solution that results in a durable, reliable, and competitive advantage for our clients' businesses.

VividNET invests in our infrastructure and our company for one sole reason to meet our clients' present and future Internet needs. We link-up clients to the Internet by evaluating their size, location, budget and other significant needs including security. VividNET also offers alternatives for increasing bandwidth requirements as your business continues to grow. The VividNET commitment means you receive unsurpassed reliability and security from all of our products and services.

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VividNET can help you start planning your Internet strategy today. Our high-speed, fault-tolerant Internet backbone provides you with reliable connectivity, plenty of bandwidth, and fast throughput. The VividNET/OPM Network delivers 99.9% network reliability and gives your company the most robust, reliable and unsaturated network connection possible.

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If you want faster e-mail, file transfers and downloads, VividNET delivers a full suite of connectivity options from 56 Kbps to T1 (1.54 Mbps) speeds. And that's just the beginning. VividNET can help you give your clients faster access to your Web site, provide critical backup for most crucial Internet applications, and deliver the latest security to keep your network protected.

FAQ: Frame Relay, Routers, and CSU/DSUs

Please Define Frame Relay:

Frame Relay, sounds weird and funny; in reality it's a common telecommunication technology for high-speed data transfer over T1 using shared facilities.

A Frame Relay makes it possible to share facilities because of “Bursts”. A Burst is a specific amount of data shot over lines from one point to another, not a constant stream. This gives companies an ability to share lines to cut cost. Since no one person or company needs to use 100% of this channel 100% of the time.

This shared facility is called a Frame Relay network or a Frame Relay cloud. This is the network that connects your company to VividNET Communication and then out to the world.

Who can benefit from using Frame Relay access?

Frame Relays are used by various type of companies. It is considerd one of the most cost-effective ways to connect an entire office to the Internet. This proves to be a good value for time and money. You only need 1 line to serve 2, 5, 10, 40, 200 computer units on a LAN system. Almost any company that needs a fast pace constant connection will desire a Frame Relay.

Doctors offices use it to transmit their patients information around the world or just to the local drug store for a prescription. Part suppliers large and small use it to service more customers than they could possibly handle over the phone. Sales companies use it for 24 hour customer relations, with high speed email and access they can find and close their leads more efficiently. Stock Investors use it to get up to the minute stock quotes from anywhere in the world.

Basically, if you want to receive or send almost any type of data at the fastest rate possible then a Frame Relay is what you need.

How much bandwidth does my company need?

The bandwidth ( how many K of frame relay ) usage really depends on what you are using it for. The most important thing to keep in mind is that a 128 K Frame Relay is not the same type of line used for higher speed Frames.

384 K, 512 K and Full T1 Frame Relays run off the same physical lines. This makes it easy to upgrade quickly from 128K to a Full T1 with an affordable setup cost. The easiest way to figure out what size of line you require is to follow this table.