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Transparent Bridging

Overview Transparent bridges were first developed at Digital Equipment Corporation in the early 1980s. Digital submitted its work to the Institute of Electrical and Electronic Engineers (IEEE), which incorporated the work into the IEEE 802.1 standard. Transparent bridges are very popular in Ethernet/IEEE 802.3 networks. This chapter provides an overview of transparent bridging's handling of traffic and protocol components. Transparent bridges are so named because their presence and operation are transparent to network hosts.

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Publisher	Cisco Systems	File Format	HTML & PDF
Date Published	February 2002	Downloads	206
Format	White Papers
Topics	Bridges, Industry Standard Protocols

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