Frame Relay

Proven, Cost-effective and Easily Implemented Service for High Data Volumes

Macquarie Telecom’s Frame Relay service delivers high reliability and fast performance on secure and fully redundant backbone. We can provide strong business grade security with a single firewall protecting your entire network.

Frame Relay is a service designed for moving high volumes of data, interconnecting local area networks and providing access to the Internet. Frame Relay services are most suitable for business and government organisations with hub-and-spoke networking requirements or for growing organisations running a mix of protocols (IPX, SNA or Appletalk).

Frame Relay can connect and manage your Australian and international business sites regardless of location.

Key Advantages of Macquarie Telecom Frame Relay Service

Enjoy numerous cost and performance advantages over alternative technologies including private line services and competitive frame relay services.

• Easy to move with our IP Migration services
• Extensive coverage - Connect with sites throughout Australia and in more than 100 other countries.
• Top performance – Our Frame Relay service delivers high reliability and top performance, with transmission speeds of up to 1984K and with access speeds up to 45Mbps. Achieve high throughput and efficiency as a result of our fully protected and fully redundant backbone engineered to support your access demands.
• Internet access and security with a single firewall - With a hub-and-spoke arrangement you pay for and manage a single firewall while protecting the entire network from unauthorised access via the Internet.
• Predictable performance - Our Frame Relay service is built on proven technology with ratified procedures to avoid network congestion and to maintain the integrity of delay sensitive traffic. We have a diversely routed core network with multiple carriers to each point of presence to ensure the highest possible network availability.
• Local access tail options - Macquarie Telecom supports multiple local access tail options utilising our own network infrastructure our extensive wholesale carrier relationships. We help you select the local access tail option that meets your budget, speed, reliability and redundancy needs.
• Service management options - Improve productivity by engaging Macquarie Telecom Managed Network Service to design, install, manage and maintain your network. Enjoy efficiency and reliability with detailed reporting and industry-leading SLAs.
• Frame Relay service support for SNA, IPX, Appletalk - Macquarie Telecom Frame Relay is excellent for transporting IBM Systems Network Architecture (SNA), IPX and Appletalk in addition to IP applications.
• Integrated traffic across the same physical link - Our Frame Relay solution allows many Wide Area Network (WAN) links to co-exist on the same port whilst still connecting to physically separate locations. Reduce communication costs by integrating access to multiple Macquarie Telecom services over the same local access loop line.
• Standby links and recovery options - Ensure business continuity by designing your network with the provision for back-up PVCs (Permanent Virtual Circuits) to a disaster recovery site in the event of failure at your primary business site.
• Simple network management and visibility - Manage your network health, performance and utilisation with our web-based tool InView. Isolate problems in real time and monitor permanent virtual circuit (PVC) usage and connections to assure optimum performance.
• Hardware expertise - Our specialist partners can advise on the selection and installation of routers, channel banks, Frame Relay access devices (FRADs) and multiplexers from leading manufacturers. Enjoy peace of mind as Macquarie Telecom then sources your entire network and its components.
• Single bill - Receive all of your Frame Relay Network components on a single bill, including all the local access tails, irrespective of the selected carrier. This single bill can include all of your other Macquarie Telecom services for efficient billing and administration.

Contact us today to discuss how our Frame Relay solutions can help your business.