Sprint Frame Relay Business Advantages

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Business Advantages

Sprint Frame Relay Service provides numerous cost and performance advantages over alternative technologies such as private line services and competitive frame relay services.

Classes of Service to Match Your Applications
Performance Guarantees
Increased Reliability
Total Network Solution
Diverse Protocol Support
Cost Savings
Highly Flexible Connectivity

Classes of Service to Match Your Applications

Gain more from frame relay services tailored to meet your specific needs. Sprint is the first network service provider to launch frame relay network services to support three different applications.

Sprint Frame Relay for LANs supports the variable response time requirements, variable traffic rates and bursty nature of LAN applications.
Sprint Frame Relay for SNAs provides consistent response times, predictably high performance and maximum throughput up to the full port speed.
Sprint Frame Relay for Voice delivers voice-quality connections with the cost savings of frame relay.

Performance Guarantees

Depend on guaranteed performance. Sprint brings you performance guarantees designed to meet your business needs. Our frame relay network is engineered to accommodate peak traffic loads and uses the most advanced networking equipment. Quality of service performance levels are based on the response time, throughput and availability requirements of each service type: SNA, LAN and voice. Service level agreements (SLAs), which are backed by credits to the customer, address network availability, frame delivery rate and network delay.

Increased Reliability

Rely on an advanced network design. Sprint Frame Relay Service operates on an advanced all-digital, fiber-optic network backbone that utilizes automatic rerouting techniques and Synchronous Optical Network (SONET) architecture. Backup options including dial backup, host disaster recovery and switch diversity also provide extra support for your mission-critical applications. These systems minimize downtime in the unlikely event of a fiber cut or electronics failure.

Total Network Solution

Rely on Sprint to provide you a total network solution. As a leading provider of innovative business communication solutions, we have the expertise and resources to help you use today's most advanced business tools to compete more effectively and reach your business goals. Consider us your single source provider of a comprehensive set of services ranging from consultation to design, installation, maintenance and management.

Diverse Protocol Support

Consolidate many different protocols over a single cost-efficient network. Reduce expenses for physical facilities, equipment, operations and administration. Frame relay enables you to transport virtually any protocol, including:

System network architecture/synchronous data link control (SNA/SDLC)
Transmission control protocol/Internet protocol (TCP/IP)
Internetwork packet exchange (IPX)

Cost Savings

Increase cost efficiencies. Sprint Frame Relay Service can provide a single access line, economically replacing multiple connections. Plus, you can customize your committed information rates (CIRs) to determine the best cost and application performance for your business. You can also reduce costs by transmitting voice and fax traffic via frame relay. Additionally, integrated access to multiple Sprint services such as Internet access and asynchronous transfer mode (ATM) internetworking helps contain costs.

Highly Flexible Connectivity

Change and expand your network connectivity with ease. Frame relay gives you more flexibility than fixed-path private lines to interconnect virtually any location. You can link sites one-to-one (point-to-point), one-to-many (star network) or many-to-many (meshed network). Only software changes to the network are required to add permanent virtual circuits (PVCs), migrate to higher speeds or make other configuration changes.