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
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