FR v DSL

Frank Boecherer frank at COMPUTICA.COM
Tue Aug 15 23:47:54 EDT 2000


I have a client with 4 or 5 branch offices.  The branches are currently
hooked up via Frame Relay.

They wanted to start migrating to DSL since it would be cheaper.  Although I
am a technical person (I do PC consulting) I am not too clear on the
advantages and disadvantages of FR v DSL.  Are most VPN questions posed on
this list running over PVC/ATM/FR or are a lot of you already using DSL
VPN's?  Should we stick with FR even though it costs more?  Is it more
reliable and faster (in general) than a VPN over DSL?  The company is not in
the banking industry, but it is a well established company that has the
money to pay for FR as they have been doing so for several years.

Another drawback is the main office can maybe only get 416K DSL and with 4
branches coming in (they need to access the NT server for most of the
communication and not much Internet access) the line will probably be
saturated and the main branch will be a bottleneck.

Any pointers would be welcome.

Thanks

Frank

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