Frame Relay Over Tunnel

[kcusscam]

I know a person who is in a bit if a situation and I think I know the answer but want someone who knows to verify or correct.

They have a 56K dedicated line coming in that needs to go to a offsite location, there is no coper lines going to the remote site, only existing fiber, one pair left. They have a device that uses frame relay at the remote site and need to get it connected through their main site.

I believe than can use two cisco routers with a 56k csu/dsu and pass this frame relay over the fiber by placing on router at each end; one to pick up the 56k frame relay pass it over an ethernet tunnel and use the csu/dsu on the other end to drop the circuit back off and into the remote devices. Does this seem feasible, of course using a coper to fiber media converter or an optical ethernet interface in the routers.

Of course if anyone knows of another or better way to do this please let me know.

Thanks for any feedback.

Jeremy

 

[burtsbees]

What's on the frame circuit, and what's at the remote site that they need to monitor?

Burt

 

[kcusscam]

I am not sure what the actual device is but I think it monitors power usage and interacts with some remote relays. All I know is the device speaks a proprietary language on a frame circuit. I believe right now they have to have someone to manually monitor and interact based on the "data".

jeremy

 

[burtsbees]

But how does it communicate on the network? What protocol? What you're talking are layers 5-7...who cares about that...

Burt

 

[kcusscam]

I believe its point to point with just a raw data stream between the two devices, so its layer 3 -7 would be its own; at least from my understanding, more like a serial link.

jeremy