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Frame Relay

CenturyLink Wholesale Frame Relay ServiceSM enables you to expand the reach of your frame relay offering nationwide while achieving high performance and cost savings over traditional private line service. CenturyLink can also terminate frame relay service for your customers in numerous international locations, using PSN2 technology.

Frame relay services represent a high-value offering for all of your customers' data communications, with speeds from 56 Kbps to DS3. As an economical option, CenturyLink Wholesale Frame Relay Service is available with a 0 CIR option, while assuring 99.00% throughput. The CenturyLink network also accepts traffic bursts up to the full rate of the access channel - giving your customers greater throughput without greater cost.

Features

CenturyLink Wholesale Frame Relay Service delivers an array of exceptional features:

  • High speed access from 56 Kbps up to DS3
  • Committed information rate (CIR) options from 0 to 2 Mbps, with 2x and 4x over-subscription
  • Multiple classes of service: for LANs, for SNA traffic, for voice
  • 24x7 customer support
  • Reliability and performance of transmission over the CenturyLink 100% digital, fiber-optic SONET/ATM backbone network
  • Comprehensive backup and recovery options for diverse hosts, frame relay switches, and local access facilities
  • Service interworking between frame relay and ATM sites and between frame relay sites and the Internet

Benefits

CenturyLink Wholesale Frame Relay Service enables you to provide customers and your business with these outstanding advantages:

  • Gain flexibility, efficiency, reliability, and proven performance for multiprotocol data communications
  • Minimize investments in access lines and equipment
  • Connect multiple locations without the expense of purchasing individual circuits
  • Simplify network management with unsurpassed service level agreements and support
  • Smooth the migration from frame relay to ATM

Applications

CenturyLink Wholesale Frame Relay Service supports a broad range of data applications for you and your customers:

  • Sales: order entry and tracking, point-of-sale, e-commerce, sales force automation
  • Business communications: intranets, email, internal voice, and fax calls
  • Data virtual private networks (VPNs)

Availability

  • Available in all LTD territories

For more information about CenturyLink Wholesale Frame Relay Service, talk to your CenturyLink account representative today, or call 800.788.3240.