Yes and no.
You can set up a cisco to do frame relay encapsulation over
a t1 or other circuit, one end has to have an IOS image that
supports "frame-relay switching" then other end looks like
a standard frame-relay circuit. PVC's are set up on each end.
Frame is a fairly low-overhead protocol, and once you've done
this, you can set up point-point sub-interfaces and treat
each one separately as far as routing, bandwidth limiting or
measurements.
The downside is that if you hard max-out the circuit, it seems
that LMI packets can get dropped, and then your sub-interfaces
with flap, making your routing protcols unhappy...
You can also use a "plain" t1 to extend a frame circuit, but
you do have to make sure that framing matches.
George
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> Can a T1 from provider to client run on frame encapsulation and still
> be "point to point".? Not a Frame-Relay T1.
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