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• Frame relay saves money on customer premises equipment (CPE), local access, and interexchange network. It also reduces administrative and operations costs.
More direct connectivity between locations can be provisioned for minimal incremental cost. Because of this, frame relay networks can be designed to better match the underlying traffic patterns.
• Locations and connections can be added easily and more cost effectively with frame relay compared with private lines. It is easy to redesign and optimize the network because changing port connection and virtual circuit bandwidth is software configurable.
• Most frame relay networks have self-healing or automatic rerouting capabilities between the frame relay switches.
• Frame relay is based on statistical multiplexing where bandwidth can be shared between active applications and/or connections only. This lowers the cost of ownership because end users don’t have to pay for idle or excess capacity needed to meet peak traffic periods. In a branch office network environment these cost savings can be substantial.
