I work for Sprint and we use the 0 CIR approach with our customers. I don't
know if it's Sprint you are talking to, but we have never had any customers
complain about frame performance. Personally, I like to have some CIR, even
if it is just 16k, but that comes from my administrator experience prior to
Sprint. Because Sprint is an IXC and also a LEC in a lot of cities, Sprint
has so much bandwidth they can't oversubscribe their network even if they
wanted to. The only time I would suggest a certain level of CIR is if you
plan on moving Voice traffic over this frame circuit. Otherwise, 0 CIR is
fine. Any IXC will tell you that "0 CIR is really a marketing tool" and it
is. Sprint uses over 200 Nortel Passport 15000 switches in their backbone
interconnected with OC192 ATM - so with that in mind, believe me when I say
Sprint has so much bandwidth they can't even us it all. It's true. If this
was another carrier, ask other customers how they like their service.
Regards,
Mark
""Nabil Fares"" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message
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> Greetings all,
>
> Can you guys shed some light on how FR providers base their charges. How
> they charge when going above CIR (etc...)?
>
> also, if I have site with network access between 8-5, is it worth risking
a
> zero CIR?
>
> We had a meeting with an account rep for a FR provider, he kept pressing
on
> 0 CIR. This is a new trend?
>
> Thanks,
>
> Nabil
>
>
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