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Chapter 2
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 and PRI
modules, and on interfaces that use raise DTR or V.25 bis signaling with dial
services. It also includes Frame Relay compression on multiline and dial
backup.
• Hardware-based compression for Frame Relay and PPP networks that use the
octal synchronous link module for the BN using Fast Routing Engine-2
(FRE
®
-2) processors. Hardware compression supports all of the PPP and
Frame Relay services that software compression supports.
• Hardware-based compression for Frame Relay and PPP networks for the
ASN. A compression net module compresses data transmitted over a WAN
network by dual and quad synchronous, MCE1/ISDN PRI, MCT1/ISDN, dual
sync with ISDN BRI, and QBRI net modules. 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 decide how to allocate memory for
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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