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Chapter 1
Data Compression Overview
Bay Networks data compression services enable you to reduce line costs and
improve response times over wide area networks. Our data compression
eliminates redundancies in data streams. When you use compression on your
network, bandwidth efficiency improves, and you can transmit more data over a
given amount of network bandwidth.
Our compression services include
• Software-based compression for Frame Relay, Point-to-Point Protocol (PPP),
and X.25 networks for all router platforms and all serial interfaces. This
includes PPP compression on multiline, multilink, on the ISDN BRI module,
and on interfaces that use raise DTR or V.25 bis signaling with dial services.
• Hardware-based compression for Frame Relay and PPP networks that use the
octal synchronous link module for the Backbone Node (BN®) using FRE2
processors. Bay Networks provides hardware compression as an optional
daughterboard that attaches to the octal synchronous link module. Hardware
compression supports all of the PPP services that software compression
supports.
Bay Networks software- and hardware-based compression interoperate fully
because they use the same algorithm.
To use data compression effectively, you must make decisions about how much
memory to allocate to this task. The goal is to compress data as much as possible
and to transmit the data as quickly as possible without unduly taxing the resources
of the router.
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