Meeting Your Stringent Demands for a Cost-effective, High-speed, and High-security Network
CenturyLink® Frame Relay Services (FRS) provide to your agency a managed, fully-interoperable, and scalable suite of services based on a high-performance platform designed to maximize availability and reliability. CenturyLink® FRS delivers connection-oriented data transmission at rates up to Digital Signal Level-3 (DS-3). Fully integrated with our Asynchronous Transfer Mode (ATM) platform, CenturyLink® FRS provides access to our Multi-Protocol Label Switched (MPLS) core network. These features make CenturyLink® FRS ideal for seamless integration of your agency's service delivery point sites with a broad range of bandwidth requirements and a wide variety of access architectures. CenturyLink offers a full array of industry leading features, capabilities, and interface requirements for FRS customers.
Benefits
CenturyLink® FRS provides a highly reliable solution. CenturyLink uses industry leading, state-of-the-art carrier quality integrated FRS devices. Your agency will benefit from high quality services derived from a stable, proven network platform
- Delivered over CenturyLink® national and international fiber backbone featuring robust connectivity and inherent redundancy
- Seamless Frame Relay-to-ATM inter-working
- IP enablement offers simplified any-to-any connectivity that is provided via a single enterprise permanent virtual circuit (PVC) at each agency location
- Flexible quality of service (QoS) objectives: Verified Frame Relay-real time, Variable Frame Relay-non-real time, Unspecified Frame Relay
- Scalable port speeds: 56 Kbps, 1.544 Mbps, fractional 1.544 Mbps and 45 Mbps
- Reliable, performance-based AQLs
- Expert support to design, install and manage networks
- Easy to manage Control Center Networx Portal
- Ability to burst to port speed
- Disaster Recovery PVCs
- Redundant world-class network operations centers (NOCs) and systems
- CenturyLink consistently meets or exceeds the Government's Acceptable Quality Level (AQL) metrics
- CenturyLink® FRS is proactively monitored 24x7x365
- CenturyLink offers the additional capability of reporting statistical and alarm information directly to agencies via our Web-based reporting service, the Control Center Networx Portal
Uses
Supports all applications.