Frame relay is a WAN protocol designed in response to X.25 deficiencies. X.25 provides extensive error-checking and flow control. Packets are checked for accuracy at each station to which they are routed. Each station keeps a copy of the original frame until it receives confirmation from the next station that the frame has arrived intact. Such station-to-station checking is implemented at the data link layer of the OSI model, but X.25 only checks for errors from source to receiver at the network layer. The source keeps a copy of the original packet until it receives confirmation from the final destination. Much of the traffic on an X.25 network is devoted to error-checking to ensure reliability of service. Frame relay does not provide error-checking or require acknowledgement in the data link layer. Instead, all error-checking is left to the protocols at the network and transport layers, which use the frame relay service. Frame relay only operates at the physical and data link layer.
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