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Global Frame Relay

Is your voice and data traffic pushing your network — and IT costs — to the edge?

With Sprint Global Frame Relay, you can consolidate all of your business's voice and data traffic onto a single, cost-efficient network. This advanced service network enables superior traffic management and end-to-end integrated support of services to 470 cities in 70 countries worldwide. Depending on your country, dedicated access is available with speeds from 56 Kbps to 2 Mbps. As your needs expand, so will your Global Frame Relay service — easy upgrades are readily available from Sprint.

Customer Benefits

  • Provides the most comprehensive Service Level Agreements in the industry, covering availability, installation, and repair
  • Brings network management online with web-based software that gives you complete control of online assets
  • Ensures the access you need when you need it, backed by unbeatable availability commitments
  • Delivers maximum performance with high-throughput, low-latency transmissions
  • Streamlines voice and data budgets by consolidating all traffic along a single, shared network
  • Trims costs by integrating traffic from both legacy and LAN applications over the same physical network

Technical Overview

  • Online network monitoring software: simplifies network management
  • SONET architecture: delivers optimised performance for your bandwidth-intensive applications
  • Flexible Access Options: Sprint Global Frame Relay provides everything you need to meet your data networking requirements. Our enhanced services include:
    • A broad selection of CIR options, up to 1,024 Kbps International STM-1s, DS3, and E3
    • Access to Global IP and Global X.25 to extend network
    • Back-up options, including ISDN back-up access lines to keep your data moving, and access via dial or ISDN at 64K, 128K, 256K, and 384K
  • Instantaneous Burst Support: One of Sprint's key differences is that its frame relay switch instantaneously allocates bandwidth when users' applications burst up to their access channel rates. Instantaneous burst support is a major advantage for you. This is because not all service providers support instantaneous burst support.