Name: draft-sajassi-l2vpn-vpls-bridge-interop-00
Title: VPLS Interoperability with CE Bridges
State: Active
Authors: Ali Sajassi, Yetik Serbest, Frank Brockners
Group: Individual Submissions (none)
Date: 2004-10-19
One of the main motivations behind VPLS is its ability to provide
connectivity not only among customer routers and servers/hosts but also
among customer bridges. If only connectivity among customer IP
routers/hosts was desired, then IPLS solution [IPLS] could have been used.
The strength of the VPLS solution is that it can provide connectivity to
both bridge and non-bridge types of CE devices. VPLS is expected to deliver
the same level of service that current enterprise users are accustomed to
from their own enterprise bridged networks today or the same level of
service that they receive from their Ethernet Service Providers using IEEE
network). When CE devices are IEEE bridges, then there are certain issues
and challenges that need to be accounted for in a VPLS network. Majority of
these issues have currently been addressed in IEEE 802.1ad standard for
provider bridges and they need to be addressed for VPLS networks. This
draft discusses these issues and wherever possible, the recommended
solutions to these issues.
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