Cisco Frame Relay Solutions Guide

Features

• Cover Type: Hard Cover with 696 pages
• Published by: Cisco Press
• Edition: 2nd Edition March 17, 2004
• Written in: English
• ISBN 10 Number: 1587051168
• ISBN 13 Number: 978-1587051166
• Book Dimensions: 9.4 x 7.6 x 1.8 inches
• Weighs: 2.8 pounds

Product Description


Implement Frame Relay solutions on Cisco networks with this definitive resource

• Design the perfect Frame Relay solution, using the detailed explanation of the Frame Relay implementation process
• Configure Frame Relay on Cisco routers with comprehensive step-by-step instructions
• Understand each feature of Frame Relay by using configuration examples and explanations
• Use Cisco oriented case studies with design scenarios to understand real-life examples of each feature's application and relevance
• Contains valuable tips and hints for troubleshooting Frame Relay connections

Today, with Frame Relay's widespread popularity, major service providers around the world offer Frame Relay as one of their core services, and it has become an important technology for connecting data networks across North America, Europe, and Asia. In short, Frame Relay is a high-speed, high-performance, Layer 2 packet-switched technology designed for communication across WANs. Frame Relay is often described as a streamlined version of the X.25 protocol, and it can be implemented over a variety of other network interfaces, including ISDN. Frame Relay users have found that it provides a number of benefits over alternative technologies:

• Lower cost of ownership
• Well-established and widely adopted standards that allow open architecture and plug-and-play service implementation
• Low overhead combined with high reliability
• Network scalability, flexibility, and disaster recovery
• Interworking with other new services and applications, such as ATM

Along with these benefits and the growing popularity of Frame Relay comes the need for information and solutions to design issues, implementation, quality of service, and high availability. To meet this need, Cisco Frame Relay Solutions Guide provides comprehensive coverage of Frame Relay technologies and the Cisco Frame Relay solutions developed in Cisco IOS software from release 12.0 up to 12.2(T). Both Frame Relay beginners, who need to understand the technology, and advanced readers, who need information on the wide range of Frame Relay features Cisco offers, will benefit from this book. However, Cisco Frame Relay Solutions Guide is a useful design, implementation, and configuration guide for networking professionals of all levels.

This book is part of the Networking Technology Series from Cisco Press, which offers networking professionals valuable information for constructing efficient networks, understanding new technologies, and building successful careers.

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About The Author


Jonathan Chin, CCIE No. 11,105, is a development test engineer in the Packet Test group under the Internet Technologies Division (ITD) within Cisco Systems. Based in Singapore, his responsibilities include development and regression testing for advanced Cisco Frame Relay, ATM, and X.25 features in Cisco IOS software releases. Currently, Jonathan is actively involved with new feature test projects in Layer 2 Tunneling Protocol (L2TPv3) and Any Transport over MPLS (AToM) technologies. Jonathan also holds CCNP, CCNA, and Wireless LAN Design certifications from Cisco and has earned his bachelor of applied science degree in computer engineering at NTU Singapore.

Reader Reviews
The title is accurate because the Jonathan Chin begins each chapter with certain problems that are encountered with Frame Relay. Then he spends that chapter demonstrating how Cisco has addressed these obstacles with new features in their Internetwork Operating System (IOS). Chin deals with the problems of multi-access Frame Relay, but dedicates more time to hub-and-spoke networks, since this is the most common type seen in the industry. There are so many options for shaping and managing traffic across the Frame Relay links with the newer versions of the Cisco IOS. And Chin explains them all showing how they solve existing limitations and what new limitations they bring, if any. When a new feature is presented, he usually charts out the advantages and disadvantages of the new versus the old configurations. The reader should have some basic knowledge of wide area networking to find the information in the Cisco Frame Relay Solutions Guide useful. The service provider offering complete end-to-end solutions for customers will get the most from the book. However, network administrators throughout the industry will find it useful for managing their leased Frame Relay network. There are some examples of what can be done on only the end DTE routers, without the help of the service provider. The chapters have excellent references with review questions. Nine of the chapters include case studies where real life problems are problems are described and solutions are shown with configurations. The author obviously has an excellent lab where the solutions were tested and documented. Chin also presents solutions that would be helpful in countries where the infrastructure is out-dated. One nice trick is multi-plexing multiple DLCIs to increase bandwidth where a full T1 is not possible. I give this book a five star rating for layout, accuracy, and usefulness.