• DocumentCode
    858973
  • Title

    Scaling provider ethernet

  • Author

    Bottorff, Paul ; Saltsidis, Panagiotis

  • Author_Institution
    Nortel Networks Corp., Toronto, ON
  • Volume
    46
  • Issue
    9
  • fYear
    2008
  • fDate
    9/1/2008 12:00:00 AM
  • Firstpage
    104
  • Lastpage
    109
  • Abstract
    We provide an overview of the IEEE provider backbone bridging standard and its associated traffic engineering standard. Furthermore, we relate these to the supporting work of the IEEE 802.1 committee.
  • Keywords
    IEEE standards; local area networks; telecommunication standards; telecommunication traffic; Ethernet; IEEE provider backbone bridging standard; scaling provider; traffic engineering standard; Bridges; Communication switching; Communication system traffic control; Encapsulation; Ethernet networks; Peer to peer computing; Protection; Quality of service; Spine; Telecommunication traffic;
  • fLanguage
    English
  • Journal_Title
    Communications Magazine, IEEE
  • Publisher
    ieee
  • ISSN
    0163-6804
  • Type

    jour

  • DOI
    10.1109/MCOM.2008.4623714
  • Filename
    4623714