?What are the advantages of frame relay?

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A frame relay service provides many attractive alternatives to leased lines. One of the first noticeable characteristics of a frame relay network is its very high transfer speeds. The data transfer speeds can be very fast, up to 45 Mbps and sometimes even higher. Along with the high data transfer rates, there is high throughput-the network as a whole is also very fast. Using fiber-optic cables, frame relay switches quickly transfer data so that it travels from one end of the network to the other in a relatively short period of time. Frame relay networks also provide very good security. Because of the encryption techniques used to transmit data between frame relay switches, it is extremely difficult to intercept and decode the transmitted data. In addition, frame relay connections are permanent connections. Because the connection is fixed, it is always available.?Another advantage associated with frame relay (and other modern high-speed wide area networks) is that their error rates during transmission are low. In fact, the error rate of frame relay networks is so low that the network does not have any form of error control. If an error occurs, the frame relay network simply discards the frame. It is the responsibility of the application, and not the frame relay network, to perform error control.?Last, frame relay networks are reasonably priced. Fixed monthly pricing is based on three charges: a port charge for each access line that connects a business into the frame relay network; a charge for each permanent connection that runs through the frame relay network between two endpoints (companies using the service); and a charge for the access line, which is the high-speed telephone line that physically connects the business to the frame relay port. Because a port and access line are capable of supporting multiple permanent connections, a user may pay one port charge, one access line charge, and several permanent connection charges.?Recently, frame relay network are starting to lose ground to MPLS over Internet routers and virtual private networks (VPNs).