A two days course

Language: English

Get your information from an independent source

Integrate private IBM and X.25 services and LAN applications on the same Frame Relay network.

Set-up Secure Addressing in a public Frame Relay Network.

Utilize frame relay for data and voice traffic.

• "Datacommunications Overview & LAN Basics" or equivalent experience is assumed.

• Typical Applications
• Advantages/Disadvantages of Frame Relay
• Costs/Business Requirements for Frame Relay
• Frame Relay Introduction
• ANSI-ITU-T
• Local Management Interface (LMI)
• Frame Relay forum
• Comparing Frame Relay to Other Technologies
• X.25
• ISDN-ATM
• Standards
• Q.921-Q.922
• Q.931-Q.933

2) Frame Relay Architecture

• Frame Relay Service Architecture T1.6.1
• Access Frame Relay Service
• Physical Layer Options
• Frame Relay T1.6.8 Frame Format
• Frame Relay Addressing Data Link Connection Identifier (DLCI)
• DLCI Assignments
• Virtual Circuits
• Permanent Virtual Circuit (PVC)
• Switched Virtual Circuit (SVC)
• DLCI Network Address Mapping
• Congestion Notification
• Forward Explicit Congestion Notification (FECN)
• Backward Explicit Congestion Notification (BECN)
• Discard Eligible (DE)
• Committed Information Rate (CIR)

3) Frame Relay Network Components

• Data Terminal Equipment (DTE)
• Frame Relay Access Device (FRAD)
• Data Communications Equipment (DCE)
• Frame Relay Network Device (FRND)
• Switches
• Ports
• Access Circuits
• User-to-Network Interface (UNI)
• Network-to-Network Interface (NNI)
• Dial-up
• ISDN

4) Implementing Frame Relay UNI

• ANSI/ISU-T/LMI
• Router Configuration
• FRAD Configuration

• Network Design Parameters
• CIR/DE
• Congestion control
• Network Capacity Management
• Encapsulation of Frame Relay Data
• IP/IPX
• X.25
• Bridged ethernet

5) Frame Relay Protocols

• T1.618 Frame Format
• Frame Relay Signaling and Congestion Control
• Annex D T1.617 Messages (LMI)
• Annex D T.618 Messages (CLLM)
• Q.931 Header and Information Elements
• LMI consortium LMI Message Types
• Status Inguiry
• Report type
• Keep alive sequence
• LMI Status Messages
• PVC Status
• Annex D Messages
• Link Integrity Verification
• Status Messages
• Consolidated Link Layer Manager (CLLM) Messages

6) Frame Relay Analysis

• LMI Status
• CLLM Congestion notification
• Decode Frame Relay Messages
• Status Inquiry/status; keep/alive
• Status inquiry/status; full status
• Congestion notification: FECN/BECN

7) Voice Over Frame Relay

• Overview
• Speech Components
• Voice Frame Formation
• Configuring Voice Over Frame Relay
• Delay
• Frame-loss
• Traffic Integration
• Prioritisation
• Fragmentation
• Compression Algorithms

8) Frame Relay Network-to-Network Interface (NNI)

• Multi-Network PVC
• NMI Bidirectional Procedures
• RIC Setup Deletion