Mark Landin ([log in to unmask]) wrote:
> We have a number of remote DTCs out there currently over 56 KB
> analog leased lines. However, we are contemplating moving to Frame
> Relay services in the future. Does anyone have any experience with
> trying to use remote DTCs over FR? We manage our DTCs with OpenView
> DTC Manager, and they are either DTC 48s or DTC 72 MXs.
 
We currently have 13 remote sites which have a DTC 16/iX box which we
bridge over frame-relay.  The remote sites connect into the cloud at 56k
(48k CIR) and our central site connects to the cloud at T-1 (1.008Mb CIR).
 
We've been running with this topology for several months now.  So far, so
good.  Takes about 5 minutes to download a DTC over the WAN, but we have
UPS on all the remote DTC's so once they're loaded the performance from
the user perspective has been indistinguishable from the LAN-connected
DTC-48's and 9600 baud stat muxes that they replaced.
 
We used to use OpenView but have "reverted" to host-based management.  It
shouldn't matter to the bridge, in any case.
 
  Jeff Lindberg, Information Technology Coordinator
 
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