The FA600 includes an Ethernet interface and one serial port while the FA800 and FA1000 include an Ethernet interface and two serial ports. FrameAccess provides full support of public frame relay standards for congestion management, FECN, BECN, DE and supports up to 998 DLCIs. They automatically learn their local DLCI plus all of the PVCs allowed from the public network switch interface. This feature eliminates the manual DLCI and PVC administration found in other FRAD products.
The LAN ports allow direct connection of Ethernet networks to frame relay networks and are totally transparent to other network devices. They automatically learn MAC and IP addresses plus automatically determine all paths and routes. This feature enables any to any connectivity in networks of all sizes or topologies. This feature also eliminates the administration of IP routing tables.
FrameAccess performs frame switching of IP, IPX and XNS protocols, eliminating the need for access routers. Traditional non-routable protocols are switched based on source and destination addresses. The SNA route feature provides the ability to move SNA data via Data Frame Switching (DFS) without IP encapsulation.
SNA is supported using three modes: