When your frame relay service provider assigns you PVC's, they are private
unless otherwise specified.
The carrier will collect PVC's from different users and transport them over
a large pipe together, same as the carriers do with T-1 or subrate circuits.
Therefore, it is shared from that perspective, but unless someone has access
to that large pipe, the PVC's do not cross across customer boundaries. In
other words, no other customer has access to your PVC's.
At the end points, the carrier will demux the various PVCs and route them to
the proper destinations.
----- Original Message -----
From: Dan West <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: John Jarrett <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>; <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Sent: Wednesday, March 07, 2001 10:15 AM
Subject: Re: Frame-relay
> AFAIK, this can be true if only one customer is using
> all the VCs in a frame network. If nobody else has VCs
> on that network, it would not be an issue unless, of
> course, somebody physically compromises the media
> (copper tapping). Is this accurate?? :>
>
> --- John Jarrett <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> > Could someone please clarify something for me about
> > Frame-relay?
> >
> > I had always understood that traffic over
> > frame-relay was unsecure and
> > needed to be encrypted if it was of a critical
> > nature. Is frame-relay
> > always a shared network? I had thought so but I
> > have recently had a
> > someone explain to me that they did not need to
> > encrypt the data because
> > they "owned" the cloud that the pvc ran through. He
> > said that it was a
> > point to point connection and therefore not over a
> > shared network. All
> > of our connections are setup using sub-interfaces
> > and point to point. I
> > still thought that it was over a shared network.
> > This did not make a
> > lot of sense to me.
> >
> > Any help would be appreciated. Any links to good
> > documentation would be
> > helpful as well.
> >
> > Thanks,
> > John
> >
> > [EMAIL PROTECTED]
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