1. Frame Relay Implementation

Frame relay will be inserted into the Wide Area Network at the District Office. The Frame Relay connection will provide access for the district network to the Internet and to external networks. The District office interconnects with the other two WAN Core hubs via dedicated point-to-point leased data lines. All schools connect to a WAN hub and each hub is connected to two other hubs. The Frame Relay will be a Permanent Virtual Connection. The speed of the Frame Relay will be 1600 Kbps. The speed can be upgraded in 64 Kbps increments to 1984 Kbps. Speeds above this are incremented at 2 Mbps.

Frame Relay is a high performance, efficient data link technology. Frame Relay can have multiple virtual circuits to establish connections across a WAN through a connection oriented service. Frame Relay multicasting can allow a sender to transmit a single frame but have it delivered to multiple recipients. Frame Relay global addressing gives connection identifiers global rather than local significance, allow them to be used to identify a specific interface to the Frame Relay network. Global addressing makes the Frame Relay network resemble a local-area network in terms of addressing.


2. DLCI, CIR, Equipment:

DLCI Number:

The DLCI will be provided by Telstra upon receiving connection to the Frame Relay network.

Committed Information Rate:

The Committed Information Rate for the Frame Relay connection is 1600 Kbps.

Data Communication Equipment:

A CSU/DSU for the Frame Relay connection will be provided by Telstra. All that is required for connection is a spare serial interface on the router and a V.35 cable to connect to the Network Termination Unit.


3. General Configuration Commands:

interface serial 0/1
ip address <ip address> <subnet mask>
encapsulation frame relay cisco
bandwidth 1600
no shutdown