FRAME RELAY SERVICE PROVIDERS CENTER

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AT&T Frame Relay Service

• Alliance Datacom is proud to offer our customers a reliable source for frame relay service. Our partnership with AT&T allows us to negotiate and source frame relay service and equipment.

Find My Telco Central Office

• Within seconds locate your nearest Telco Central Office (CO). Also provides CO feature set as logged with the FCC. Then submit only one single form to receive dozens of competitive telco service quotes.

Can You Get DSL Service In Your Area?

• Find out within seconds if DSL Service is available in your area. Then submit only one single form to receive dozens of competitive DSL service quotes.

How to Choose a Service Provider for Frame Relay or ATM Service

• Cisco provides an outstanding resource detailing comprehensive guidelines for those seeking Frame Relay and ATM connectivity.

Tough Questions for Frame Relay Service Providers

• Data Communications Magazine provides the questions that every potential frame relay subscriber should ask.

Frame Relay Service Level Agreement Template

• Visual Networks makes Frame Relay SLAs easy, with this comprehensive and understandable template, just fill in the "blanks."

Ameritech Frame Relay Service

• Ameritech's Frame Relay Service provides a cost-effective way to integrate local area network (LAN)-based applications such as, document sharing and electronic mail among multiple local offices using just one network-access link.

Ascend ISP Directory

• Ascend provides a valuable ISP Directory searchable by services such as Frame Relay, DDS 56, ISDN, T1, FT1, T3, FT3, xDSL, IDSL, RADSL-CAP, RADSL-DMT, SDSL, HDSL, Dial-up, Analog, 56Kbps, Dual 56Kbps, Switched 56, ISDN BRI, Firewall Support, Authentication and Authorization Services and Token Cards.

AT&T Frame Relay Service

• Voted the top service provider, AT&T takes the guesswork out of frame relay network design. AT&T's Perf Tool will help you predetermine committed information rates (CIR), permanent virtual circuits (PVC), port speeds and configurations. Additionally, AT&T's Frame Relay Service uses a high-speed packet protocol and active bandwidth management with connectivity to over 50 countries. For LAN connectivity, bulk file transfers and client/server applications, frame relay service is ideal because it supports widely varying traffic loads, many-to-many connectivity and high speeds. With AT&T Account Management Plus or AT&T WorldSource Service, AT&T offers end-to-end service, edge-device (router) management, a single point of contact, and a single combined bill.

  To view pricing for AT&T Service Click Here (Go To Page 5).

  
  To view a chart of countries served by AT&T Frame Relay Click Here.

  Or to view examples of monthly AT&T Frame Relay Statistics Click Here.

  Furthermore, AT&T has the best Tutorial on Frame Relay for the Enterprise Network.

  Finally, AT&T is the first carrier to provide rate-based, close-loop congestion management for ATM.

Avantel Mexico - Frame Relay Service

• Avantel Frame Relay is the only service in Mexico to transmit data that has a performance guarantee. Map of Mexican Cities that receive Avantel Frame Relay Service.

Bell Atlantic Frame Relay Service

• Bell Atlantic's Frame Relay Service lets you handle data-intensive jobs accurately, quickly and far more economically than you could with private dedicated lines.

  To view pricing for Bell Atlantic Frame Relay Click Here.

Bell Canada Frame Relay Service

• Bell Canada's Private Frame service is a high speed access service that provides high performance connectivity for a variety of customer applications. The Frame Relay protocol used in this service uses only the physical layer and a portion of the link layer of the OSI model.

BellSouth Frame Relay Service

• BellSouth Frame Relay Service At-A-Glance: Enables cost-effective data sharing over wide geographic areas. Offers high-speed connectivity - up to DS3. Provides a fast, reliable alternative to dedicated lines. Makes it easy to add or delete locations and modify sites. Includes 24 x 7 network monitoring and maintenance.

Bezeq - The Israeli Telecom Company

• Bezeq Frame Relay Service in Israel offers a high level of availability, with almost no service interrupts. The data stream automatically bypasses network faults, if they occur. The network control center supervises all the network activity by operating control programs. These programs receive Real-Time data on the status of the network, and remote control on the network switches and transmission media.

British Telecommunications (BT) Frame Relay Service

• FrameStream is the product name of BT's domestic Frame Relay service. It offers fast efficient and economic data communication for medium speed (up to 2.048Mbit/s) bursty data applications. FrameStream is based on international frame relay standards and provides a LAN interconnect service between customer sites.

  FrameStream provides complete UK coverage, but the service can also seamlessly connect to the Concert Frame Relay Service (CFRS) to offer connectivity to more than 40 countries worldwide. This means that customers can create domestic or global networks, delivered and managed through a single supplier. Furthermore, to provide a genuine migration path FrameStream now interconnects to BT's ATM Service - CellStream. This means that high bandwidth sites can be connected directly to the CellStream network and lower speed FrameStream sites will be able to communicate across a network gateway. This offers an ideal migration path as customers' bandwidth requirements grow and multi-media applications become the norm.

Cable and Wireless PLC Frame Relay Service

• Cable & Wireless Frame Relay Service has been designed to meet the growing requirement for international LAN to LAN and client/server interconnection, supporting applications with bursty traffic profiles and speeds of 64 kbit/s and above. To ensure service consistency, Cable & Wireless Frame Relay is provided on a single supplier platform (Nortel). To ensure reliability the platforms are connected by dual ring backbone riding on Cable & Wireless' global fibre optic network, the Global Digital Highway.

CAIS Frame Relay Service

• CAIS offers a full range of high quality, scalable Dedicated Access products ranging from 56K to 100 Mbps connections.

Cegetel France - Frame Relay Service

• Whatever the number of your sites, their size, their geographical location, the type of shared information, the protocols used, your degree of access to the Internet, Cegetel brings certainty to you, a choice of interconnection network solutions adapted to your company.

Cincinnatti Bell Frame Relay Service

• Cincinnatti Bell Frame Relay Service lets you add or decrease bandwidth at a moment's notice-all you have to do is call them. You can also add PVCs to new locations for literally pennies a day, allowing inter-site connectivity.Your Cincinnati Bell representative will work with you to mix the ingredients and make everything work best for your business.

Cisco Service Providers

• Great way to do investigative research on service providers internationally. Furthermore, you may set your own search parameters for a service provider meeting your requirements.

Comnet IIetisim Hizmetleri Turkey - Turpak X.25 Service

• This major telecommunications service provider in Turkey offers X.25 service for enterprises.

CompuServe - UUNET (Division of Worldcom)

• WorldCom Advanced Networks (formerly CompuServe Network Services) has frame relay service centers throughout the United States, Canada, Europe, the Pacific Rim and beyond. These centers support frame relay access speeds from 56 Kbps to 1.536 Mbps over its highly efficient cell-relay (ATM) backbone.

  Through a single link, your remote sites can have complete connectivity to other locations on FRAME-Net. High-speed connectivity between your many remote locations is not only easy to implement with FRAME-Net, but it is also extremely flexible when you need to accommodate future expansions or changes.

Concentric Network Frame Relay Service

• Concentric Network offers 512Kbps burstable frame relay service nationwide with an average installation time of 4 to 6 weeks.

Concert Frame Relay Service

• Concert Frame Relay Service gives wide geographic coverage and the most uniform set of capabilities for data transmission. Concert's fully managed service supports high-speed, bursty data applications such as interactive LAN applications, CAD/CAM transfer and file transfers with minimal delay.

CRL Network Frame Relay Service

• With CRL's IntraLink Frame Relay, CRL engineers can help you design a network to match your specifications. Locations can be partially or fully meshed offering route redundancy where necessary, and allowing you to provision only the bandwidth that you need.

Deutsche Telekom AG Frame Relay Service

• FrameLink plus - the new way to connect your locations world-wide.

  FrameLink plus opens a multiplicity of possibilities for arranging cost-efficient and non-standard long-distance traffic networks designed to transfer data and voice for enterprises. FrameLink plus is a connection oriented data communication service that is Frame Relay based.

EarthLink Frame Relay Service

• Click on the link above to view a comparison chart of EarthLink's portspeed pricing and those of competitors. EarthLink offers a wide variety of high-speed access options designed to provide cost-effective solutions for Internet access, Wide Area Network (WAN) construction, and Remote Access Services (RAS) deployment. All high-speed access connections are proactively tested 24 hours a day, seven days a week by computers in EarthLink's Network Operations Center (NOC). NOC computers issue alerts automatically in the event of trouble on a member's high-speed circuit. Alerts are handled and escalated according to time of day and member instructions.

Electric Lightwave Frame Relay Service

• Electric Lightwave utilizes the following frame relay features: a state-of-the-art switch network, Network-to-Network Interface (NNI), statistical multiplexing, and Permanent Virtual Circuits. Plus, you'll have the ability to manage your network through our web-based NetTrends service, co-exist with ATM services and existing legacy systems, transport SNA networks, and support both LMI and ANNEX-D local management specifications.

Energis U.K. Frame Relay Service

• FrameConnect from Energis is a cost effective frame relay-based communications service linking remote or independent business sites to form a single, efficient data network.

EQUANT Frame Relay Service

• EQUANT's Frame Relay Access Service is currently available in over 100 countries worldwide, supporting customers in the major business locations of North America, Europe, and the Pacific Rim. The service is being made progressively available with a country coverage unsurpassed in the industry.

  Additionally, the November 1998 issue of Data Communications Magazine has a great reference article pertaining to EQUANT's Integrated Voice / Data Service Over Frame Relay.

e.spire Frame Relay Service

• With e.spire Frame Relay, you connect with the speed and service level that is right for your business, and right for your budget. When you subscribe to the level of service you need to meet normal and peak traffic loads, e.spire guarantees bandwidth availability and sustained throughput levels at the Committed Information Rate (CIR). And, when additional network capacity is available, your traffic "bursts" above the CIR, up to the maximum port speed, for even better performance.

Fiber Networks Solutions, Inc. Frame Relay Service

• Fiber Network Solutions in cooperation with numerous long haul carriers maintains separate from our ATM network, a Frame Relay Network that covers the United States and over fifty foreign countries. Precise bandwidth requirements can be achieved from 64 Kbps up through full T-1 in increments as small as 8 Kbps without any hardware change-out. Our Frame Relay network facilitates connectivity to those regions where FNSI does not currently have ATM facilities.

France Telecom - Frame Relay Service

• A state-of-the-art, self-healing broadband network linking Europe's largest cities, the new France Telecom European Backbone can carry 80 Gbps on each ring, upgradable to 1.2 Tbps. With our European Backbone comes a guaranteed 99.95% availability per month. Each ring of this state-of-the-art SDH and DWDM network can carry 80 Gbps - enough for almost all intra-European data traffic in 1999 - offering up to 1.2 Tbps potential capacity. View France Telecom's European Network Map.

Frontier Communications Frame Relay Service

• Frontier guarantees the reliability of its frame data transfer. The network is monitored and maintained 24x7 because Frontier offers single-stop support for frame relay. All customer service, maintenance, and repair inquiries can be handled with a single call. With an investment of nearly $500 million, the Frontier SONET Network is the premier, next-generation network in the telecommunications industry today.

GetNet Frame Relay Service

• GetNet is devoted to supplying commercial bandwidth nationwide and in a variety of forms, including ATM, frame relay, and private lines. GetNet utilizes ATM technology at 45 Mbps to link node sites and NAP connections redundantly across the country. The network utilizes Cisco 7000 series routers coupled with Teleport Communications Group SONET technology in each node city. All node cities are configured for "one-hop" connectivity to at least two NAP connections to enable higher speed transactions across the GetNet backbone.

Global One Frame Relay Service

• Global One Frame Relay Service gives you a virtual, wide area networking solution that is standards-based and technologically-advanced. Whatever your needs for data-intensive and bursty applications, Global One Frame Relay meets response-time demands with ease and offers you a choice of interconnections for international locations.

GTE Frame Relay Service

• GTE offers four types of access to frame relay: 56Kbps, FT1, T1 and T3. In a sense, when you buy Frame Relay from GTE, you're outsourcing your private line network. It's far less costly for GTE to build and operate a private line network when it can be shared by multiple customers.

  GTE is offering new DSL service around the country. To see if your location currently has DSL Service Available Click Here.

IBM Global Network Services - (Acquired By AT&T)

• You can access multiple applications through a single, high-speed connection to the IBM Global Network, which can help result in faster throughput and improved productivity worldwide. You also gain access to the personnel, software and hardware resources needed to maintain your infrastructure, thereby helping to reduce your capital outlay and risk of technological obsolescence. IBM backs their network availability with service level agreements and credits to provide you with the performance that your business requires.

Infonet Global Frame Relay Service

• Multinational corporations invest significant resources (both financial and human) in application software to support their business requirements. Infonet's Global Frame Relay service, available today in 42 countries, enables customers to maximize the return on investment of their software by customizing the network to optimize the performance of their applications.

INTELSAT - Satellite Voice and Data Service

• INTELSAT offers satellite telephone, fax, videoconferencing, Internet and multmedia service that reaches virtually every country in the world. These services are offered to give customers maximum flexibility in configuring their networks and include on-demand applications providing service on a per minute basis, as well as long term capacity options.

Intermedia Frame Relay Service

• Intermedia Communications guarantees that 99.9% of your frames will be delivered within the Committed Information Rate you purchase. In addition, Intermedia promises to achieve an average monthly Frame Delivery Rate (FDR) of 99% for frames marked "discard eligible". The End-to-End Frame Relay Delivery Guarantee covers your entire network of twelve (12) network sites or more, including LEC facilities and Intermedia partner facilities.

  To learn the history of DIGEX which was acquired and integrated into Intermedia follow the link below.

Internet Services of America Frame Relay Service

• ISAmerica's backbone is a national DS-3 and SONET OC-12 fault tolerant network, one of the best engineered in the world with a 99.9 % up time. ISAmerica frame relay service provides a complete range of solutions to connect your business LAN directly to ISAmerica's fault-tolerant, clear channel, high-speed Internet network. Furthermore, ISAmerica frame relay circuits are upgradeable. In most configurations there is no need to replace the hardware when you switch to a higher speed. This makes frame relay the perfect answer for businesses that plan to grow with the Internet.

iPass Corporate Access Service

• iPass Corporate Access gives mobile workers and telecommuters low-cost, secure access to the Internet, email and corporate networks - with a local call - from all over the world.

IXC Communications, Inc. Frame Relay Service

• IXC's Frame Relay product provides significant cost savings and supports today's multi-vendor, geographically dispersed data environments. To complement its Frame Relay Services, IXC also features Network Management Services (NMS), designed to provide networked customers with enhanced network security and management capabilities.

MCI Frame Relay Service

• Frame Relay Service is the premier high-speed packet data service used to support private business data communications on a public network. From the company that enhanced frame relay, MCI WorldCom provides the most comprehensive frame relay offering through its seamless local-to-global connectivity and industry-leading advanced features. MCI WorldCom has a presence in 16 countries outside the U.S., has access to hundreds of additional locations worldwide through NNIs, and offers one frame relay network from Asia to North America to Europe. This unique capability allows customers to provide locations overseas with the same seamless standard of quality as locations across the street.

Netrail Frame Relay Service

• Netrail's Frame Relay service provides a complete range of frame relay lines to connect your servers, LANs or WAN directly to Netrail's high-speed redundant backbone. Frame Relay is the solution if your organization is searching for cost-effective, dedicated, high-speed Internet access, from anywhere across the globe. In most service areas, frame relay is priced at a flat monthly rate, regardless of your location or time on-line.

Norlight Telecommunications Frame Relay Service

• There are some things you just don't mess with. Like a company's data. It's the most precious commodity your company owns. But, while all that data is being guarded, it also has to be made readily available. Which is exactly what Norlight's Frame Relay service does: ATM DS-3 backbone ensures unprecedented network availability and bandwidth. Ability to consolidate multiple voice, data and video systems into one integrated network. Reduced internetworking, equipment and bandwidth costs including increased network redundancy and performance with reduced network complexity.

  Click for a U.S. Map of Norlight Frame Relay Switch and Access Sites as well as their International Map.

NTT - Nippon Telephone And Telegraph Corporation Frame Relay Service

• With guaranteed service quality on an end-to-end basis, NTT Managed Frame Relay Service permits economical computer communications as well as voice calls.

Pacific Bell Frame Relay Service

• Pacific Bell's FasTrak Frame Relay technology allows data to be transmitted in variable length frames over permanent virtual circuits. Multiple, permanent, virtual circuits can be provisioned over a single physical access connection.

  PACBELL's FasTrak Frame Relay will generally be more cost-effective than private lines for networks with three or more locations within a Pacific Bell service area.

PSINet FrameConnect

• By combining a high-quality dedicated frame relay connection with telco frame relay services, PSINet FrameConnect provides you with a full-time connection to PSINet's global network and the public Internet for a modest monthly flat fee. It's an ideal solution for businesses that want to move up from a consumer dial-up service or small regional ISP to a full-time, business quality Internet connection. PSINet owns and operates its own Frame Relay WAN, one of the largest in the world.

Qwest Communications Frame Relay Service

• The Qwest Macro Capacity^SM Fiber Network can promise you the fastest, most advanced communication transmission in the world. Qwest's network architecture defines a new standard in reliability through self-healing SONET ring technology and a bit error rate 1000x more reliable than traditional networks.

  Click here for Qwest Financial Statements, Global Network Map, U.S. Network Map, Europe Network Map and Mexico Network Map.

Southwestern Bell Frame Relay Service

• Your business is data intensive. You need to transfer data among locations quickly, securely, and reliably. You could use a dedicated line, but you've also got a budget. Now Southwestern Bell has Frame Relay Service -- a more economical way for your business to transmit data quickly, safely, and dependably.

Sprint Frame Relay Service

• Sprint's Frame Relay Service includes two classes of service geared toward businesses with specific applications: LAN and SNA. Sprint also can provide global connectivity to extend your frame relay service worldwide, with many of the same features and capabilities offered in the U.S. (Services vary by country).

  To view a chart of countries served by Sprint Frame Relay Click Here.

Sprint ION

• Instead of purchasing a set high-bandwidth capacity that often sits idle, Sprint ION will give businesses virtually unlimited bandwidth access to their local and wide-area networks, while allowing them to dynamically allocate bandwidth, paying only for what they use. In addition, Sprint ION eliminates the complexities of multiple networks and vendors, helping to control the total cost of Information Technology (IT) ownership (which includes networking equipment and software, local and long distance transport, and management costs).

  Sprint ION is designed to make high-speed communications affordable for not only large corporate locations, but for any location of any size business - from small branch offices of large corporations, to telecommuters, home offices and individual entrepreneurs.

Telco Exchange Digital Line Pricing Tool

• In an amazing accomplishment, Telco Exchange brings you "real-time quotes" for digital line service. Why wait for pricing when you can get it immediately online with the click of your mouse, highly recommended.

Telecom Italia - RING Frame Relay Service

• RING is the name of Telecom Italia's new data transmission range of services for companies. Available in Italy on modular and scalable ATM (Asynchronous Transfer Mode), IP (Internet Protocol) and FR (Frame Relay) platforms, RING caters to the full range of company needs, from the simplest to the most complex, at all times offering the highest levels of security. It also offers a range of network services guaranteeing the greatest efficiency and tailored to meet all corporate needs.

Tele Danmark Frame Relay Service

• For those seeking frame relay service in Denmark, this is the telecommunications provider to contact.

Tele Media International Frame Relay Service

• TMI has its origin in data traffic and that still makes them an important supplier of (well priced) managed bandwidth and Frame Relay connections. In the meantime, the services have been expanded considerably. Especially the 'International Virtual Private Network' is a very interesting development for international companies. As if it were their own dedicated network all company employees all over the world can communicate with each other - by voice, fax or data - as if via their own, local PABX. These benefits are available at a low cost - independent of geographical distance.

Telia Telecom AB (Sweden) Frame Relay Service

• For those seeking frame relay service in Sweden, this is the telecommunications provider to contact.

Telstra Frame Relay Service

• Telstra Frame Relay Service is an international standard (X.36) public data network, offering the benefits of high-speed transmission (64kb/s to 2Mb/sec) via low cost virtual circuits. It is designed for environments where many-to-many connectivity is required and LAN traffic is prevalent. Telstra's Frame Relay provides the ability to handle unpredictable 'bursts' of traffic above paid-for bandwidths at no extra charge. There are gateways to Telstra's International Frame products, servicing over 39 countries.

The List ISP Directory

• The List sponsored by Mecklermedia allows you to search for an ISP by Area Code, Country Code, U.S. National Dial-up Service or Canadian National Dial-up Service. Furthermore, new ISPs can add themselves to the list or an existing ISP can update their information.

Turk Telekom Hizmetleri (Turkey) Frame Relay Service

• For those seeking frame relay service in Turkey, this is the telecommunications provider to contact.

US WEST Frame Relay Service

• Frame Relay Service (FRS) from U S WEST is a fast-packet, data transport technology, which offers you the equivalent of a high-performance, private network at economical public network prices. Alliance Datacom highly recommends the US WEST Frame Relay Tutorial.

  Find the closest US WEST Central Office (CO).

VNET Frame Relay Service

• VNET's Frame Relay Services provide a cost-effective way for companies to communicate. This protocol offers high capacity throughput, using dynamically allocated bandwidth on a case by case basis. With this technology, creating a WAN architecture is an affordable reality. More importantly, deploying additional locations is a snap.

WinStar GoodNet Frame Relay Service

• Frame relay from WinStar GoodNet provides scalable, cost-effective connectivity from 56K to T1 for small to medium size businesses. All frame connections run to shared router ports at the WinStar point of presence (POP). From the POP, traffic is only one logical hop from at least two major NAP cities.

WorldPartners Frame Relay Service

• WorldPartners "WorldSource" Frame Relay Service provides multinational corporations with the ideal solution for their complex end-to-end digital data networking needs. WorldSource Frame Relay Service gives you the flexibility of a global packet-based service with the high performance of a managed bandwidth service. Throughput at any one time can rise to the limits of the available bandwidth. This can give you the kind of connectivity around the world you may have thought was impossible.