Sprint Data Frame Relay Service
Kent England <kwe@buitb.bu.edu> Thu, 04 October 1990 20:42 UTC
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Date: Thu, 04 Oct 1990 16:43:23 -0400
From: Kent England <kwe@buitb.bu.edu>
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To: frame-relay@NRI.Reston.VA.US
Subject: Sprint Data Frame Relay Service
Status: OR
In case you hadn't heard, Sprint will be offering frame relay service on its data network. Sprint includes the old Telenet company. According to Network World, Sprint will implement frame relay on their TP4900 packet switches (apparently a software upgrade from X.25 service -kwe). They will support 56k, 64, frac T1, and full T1. Sprint will deploy TP4900s throughout their net, eventually supporting both X.25 and frame relay. Sprint will establish a program to certify other vendors' hardware to interoperate with Sprint frame relay. Sprint has not decided to join the DEC/StrataCom/NTI/cisco spec/interoperability program. cisco, Proteon, 3Com, StrataCom and Timeplex have indicated willingness to interoperate with the Sprint FR network. Your Faithful Reporter; Kent
- Sprint Data Frame Relay Service Kent England