It requires a dedicated connection during the transmission period. It's not ideally suited for voice or video transmission, which requires a steady flow of transmissions. However, under certain circumstances, it is used for voice and video transmission. A frame can incorporate packets from different protocols such as Ethernet and X.25 . It is variable in size and can be as large as a thousand bytes or more.
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