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To: lupaka who wrote (5075)	9/24/2000 11:25:08 AM
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P6 & Tiara Networks Customers Get More Flexible, Affordable Frame Relay -- Tiara Networks And PSINET Incorporate Multilink Frame Relay Into Their Offerings CMP Media Inc. - Friday, September 22, 2000 Sep. 22, 2000 (InformationWeek - CMP via COMTEX) -- Providers of network services and equipment are implementing a new frame relay specification that will give business customers a more flexible and cost-effective way to increase bandwidth requirements. As one of the early adopters of multilink frame relay, Internet service provider PSINet Inc. last week said it will launch the capability in 24 cities by year's end as part of its Dedicated Access Multi-T1 service. Key to the service is equipment from Tiara Networks Inc. that incorporates the multilink frame relay specification, which was approved as a standard by the network industry's Frame Relay Forum. PSINet will use Tiara 7030 Frame Switches and will place Tiara Multimegabit Access Concentrators at its customers' sites. The Multi-T1 service will let businesses increase bandwidth speeds beyond 3 Mbps-equivalent to two T1 lines-in increments of 1.5 Mbps to 12 Mbps, says Frank Troccoli, director of product management for dedicated access services at PSINet. That means companies using frame relay lines at T1 speeds can add extra capacity as needed, without having to jump all the way up to T3 (45 Mbps), says Ron Westfall, an analyst at Current Analysis. While multilink frame relay won't let businesses increase bandwidth to the level of T3, it can help them achieve Internet access speeds that are considerably faster than T1. "The cost savings aren't only dramatic, but it's also a more logical and friendly migration to higher bandwidths," Westfall says. Prices vary, but the typical monthly cost of the Multi-T1 service ranges from $3,000 for a 3-Mbps circuit to just below $9,000 for a 12-Mbps circuit. By comparison, the typical monthly cost for a 45-Mbps T3 line is $15,000 to $22,000, Troccoli says. The equipment needed for the service takes up little space at a customer's site, Troccoli says. It also includes built-in service redundancy, he says, because failure of one portion of a customer's connection to the Internet doesn't affect service on the other portions. investorpackages.com