Ethernet White Papers
Understanding Ethernet and Layer 2 Protocols - A Primer
Overview Recent developments, especially in Ethernet to the Home (EttH), the mission-critical requirements of the enterprise, and most especially in service provider hosting centers have led to the development and improvement of several areas associated with Ethernet switching. This paper looks at the evolution of Ethernet with respect to its basic operation as a transport technology and discusses many of the critical protocol developments, including Virtual LANs (VLAN), spanning tree, Quality of Service (QOS), and security.
| Publisher | Cisco | File Format | PDF, requires Acrobat Rdr 5 |
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| Date Published | February 2004 | Downloads | 2139 |
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