
Configuring Frame Relay Services
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If you enable congestion control and also enable traffic shaping, you can throttle,
which means queue, congested traffic rather than drop it by choosing the value,
Throttle, in the Congestion Method parameter (for a description of this parameter,
see pa
ge A-11).
Traffic Shaping
Traffic shaping relieves bottlenecks in topologies with high-speed connections to
the central site, and low-speed connections at remote sites (as in F
igure 2-7 on
page 2-
15). Committed information rate (CIR) enforcement and quality of service
(QoS) are the major components of Bay Networks traffic shaping.
Committed Information Rate
The committed information rate (CIR) is the rate at which the network supports
data transfer under normal operations. Its name is descriptive: you have a contract
with your carrier, who has committed to providing a given throughput, here called
the committed information rate. The CIR is measured in bits per second. You
configure this value that the carrier provides per virtual circuit (VC).
CIR of 0
You can contract with a carrier for a CIR of 0, which yields best-effort service at
low cost. The carrier transmits data, but does not commit to providing a specified
throughput. To configure a CIR of 0, set both the Throughput parameter (which is
the CIR) and the Committed Burst (B
c
) parameter to 0, and set the Excess Burst
(B
e
) parameter to a value greater than 0.
Maximum CIR
The maximum CIR should not be greater than the speed of the access line on the
slower end of a VC. In a big pipe/little pipe topology (illustrated in F
igure 2-7),
likely CIRs at the remote sites would be 32 Kb/s, 56 Kb/s, or 64 Kb/s. If you
configure CIRs for these VCs at the central site, you can use CIR enforcement
(described in the next topic) to prevent the big pipe from sending traffic that
exceeds the PVC CIRs.
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