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From: robelr@mythos.ucs.indiana.edu (Allen Robel)
Newsgroups: comp.dcom.sys.cisco
Subject: Re: Frame Relay?
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Date: 29 May 91 18:14:21 GMT
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> Questions:  

>         1.  a. What would Frame Relay do for us?  

>             b. How would it improve our communications with the rest of the 

>                world? 

>             c. Who else is using Frame Relay now?
> 

>         2.  What additional circuits/equipment would we need to implement
>         Frame Relay?
> 

>         3.  What would the cost/s of circuit/equipment be?

That's enough to fill several articles.  I can recommend a few
that answer most of these questions.  Also, someone on BIG-LAN
provided a writeup that I'll send you directly (if there's
enough interest, I'll post it too.)

regards,

allen
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TeleNotes.  The Frame Relay Solution.  US Sprint.  Volume 1
    Number 2.  Concise and amazingly unbiased booklet that
    discusses benefits, limitations, etc. available at no 

    charge from:
    TeleNotes Editor, Public Affairs Department
    Sprint International
    12490 Sunrise Valley Drive
    Reston, VA 22096
 

Frame Relay Protocols, Standards and Controversies.  Charles
    M. Corbalis.  Business Communications Review.  March 1991.
    pp 70-75.

The cisco/DEC/NTI/Stratacom Frame Relay Specification.  Edward
    R. Kozel.  conneXions (a couple months ago, sorry I don't
    have the exact date).

Frame Relay Networks: Not as Simple as They Seem.  Holget Opderbeck.
    Data Communications, December 1990. (deals with congestion control
    issues).

Some standards documents I'm aware of follow:

   1. ANSI T1.606: Frame Relaying Bearer Service--Architectural
      Framework and Service Description, American National
      Standards Institute, Inc., 1990.
  

   2. ANSI T1S1/90-175 (Addendum to T1.606) Frame Relaying
      Bearer Service--Architectural Framework and Service
      Description, American National Standards Institute,
      Inc., July 1990.

   3. ANSI T1S1/980-214 (T1.6ca): DSSI--Core Aspects of Frame
      Protocol for Use with Frame Relay Bearer Service.
      American National Standards Institute, Inc., July 1990.

   4. ANSI T1S1/90-213 (T1.6fr): DSSI--Signaling Specification
      for Frame Relay Bearer Service, American National Standards
      Institute, Inc., July 1990.

      "Frame Relay Specification With Extensions",  Revision 1.0, 

       Document Number 001-208966, Digital Equipment Corporation, 

       Northern Telecom, Inc., StrataCom, Inc., September 1990

       CCITT Recomendation I.122, Framework for Providing Additional
       Packet Mode Bearer Services, Blue Book, ITU, Geneva 1988