Frame Relay was an ideal WAN protocol for LAN interconnect. Customer bandwidth requirements were in the 64 Kbps class, often with fairly bursty traffic profiles. It appeared that a CIR-based service like Frame Relay would be well received by the customer. This was RNSL's first frame relay sale. Frame relay links the customer's 11 UK sales offices with its corporate headquarters in Hook, England.
Most sites have just a router and a hub to provide connectivity.
The Hook campus has a fiber ring, allowing RNSL to provide resilience by distributing the Frame Relay access between two separate buildings. Rollout took just six weeks. The network is now fully operational and has proved quite reliable. Now, the network is being loaded with many new applications and, as a result, traffic is growing. The frame relay side did undergo a few changes early in the network's operational life.