Frame Relay Signaling and Applications

Overview/Description
To introduce the various Frame Relay signaling mechanisms and applications

Target Audience
Technical professionals; IT and business managers who need to learn about wide area network technologies; students investigating or researching telecommunications technologies; nontechnical business managers, project managers, and end-users who require information on the capabilities of communications technologies to make informed decisions on communications implementations

Prerequisites
An understanding of telecommunication fundamentals, basic data communications, internetworking, and LAN technologies

Expected Duration
320 Minutes

Objectives:

Frame Relay Signaling and Applications

  • explain how the Committed Information Rate (CIR) is used to provide fair access to a network's bandwidth for all user applications.
  • describe how a Frame Relay network handles congestion.
  • choose a carrier based on its Committed Information Rate (CIR) definition.
  • describe local management interface (LMI) message types.
  • discuss the various extensions to Frame Relay.
  • describe virtual circuits in Frame Relay and the SVC signaling protocol.
  • discuss the motivation for using Frame Relay to reduce latency and describe RFC 1490 specifications for Frame Relay.
  • describe what subinterfaces are and the reachability issues relevant to Frame Relay topologies.
  • compare different topology options for Frame Relay.
  • describe Voice over Frame Relay (VoFR) functionality.
  • explain Quality of Service (QoS) considerations for a Voice over Frame Relay (VoFR) network.
  • identify the various Voice over Frame Relay (VoFR) design issues.
  • describe the encapsulation of Systems Network Architecture (SNA) over Frame Relay.
  • describe Frame Relay to Asynchronous Transfer Mode (ATM) interworking.
  • describe Frame Relay over DSL.
  • discuss the future of Frame Relay technology.


    • Course Number: 76455_eng