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Frame Relay is a modern teleservicing wide area architecture which is designed to complement a variety of existing services and in many cases it offers enhanced services at a lower cost that some of the traditional teleservices. Frame Relay has a particularly important role to play in providing elastic bandwidth communication in support of distributed teleservicing applications, and modern client/server LAN-toLAN systems in particular. It also forms an important step in the direction to full multimedia ATM networking. The bandwidth requirements for emerging teleservice applications such as client/server based transaction processing, image and graphics transmission as well as distributed database systems are very different from those used in earlier applications. These modern applications all process large volumes of data, transmit intermittent high speed bursts and are intolerant of long delays. To satisfy these requirements, the bandwidth management system in LAN-to-WAN and LAN-to-LAN networking must offer access to high bandwidth on demand, direct connectivity to all other points in the network and consumption only of bandwidth actually needed. This paper examines users’ experience resulting from three years use of a Frame Relay teleservicing network in New Zealand and discusses a range of key performance, operational and design issues.
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Hunt, R. (1996). Teleservice Provision via a Frame Relay Network - A User Case Study. In: Aagesen, F.A., Botnevik, H., Khakhar, D. (eds) Information Network and Data Communication. IFIP Advances in Information and Communication Technology. Springer, Boston, MA. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-0-387-34985-5_12
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