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Frame Relay Topologies
Frame Relay technology provides various mechanisms to connect many
remote sites efficiently and economically. When every remote site has a
direct connection to every other site, it is called a fully meshed network.
This type of topology provides connectivity to every site, but it is rarely
cost-justified and tends to be a lot harder to support.
Figure 7.8 illustrates four remote sites connected together in a fully
meshed network. Six network connections are needed to make it fully
meshed. As the number of remote sites increase, the number of Frame
Relay circuits increases ...