IETF ADOPTS ENHANCED BRIDGE CONTROL PROTOCOL.

Computer Protocols, September, 2000

Anritsu, Richardson, Texas, has announced that the Bridge Control Protocol (BCP) that it co-authored with Cisco Systems, Inc., has been adopted as an industry-wide standards track document. Designated by the Internet Engineering Task Force (IETF) as RFC2878, the enhanced protocol makes it significantly easier to implement BCP in the high-speed hardware logic that assures wire-speed operation of today's Layer 2/3/4 switches. The new protocol allows switches to support modern LAN standards such as Virtual LANs (VLANs) and Link Aggregation efficiently over MAN (Metropolitan Area Network) and WAN links.

BCP is a key part of the Point-to-Point Protocol (PPP) that is used to transport Ethernet traffic over optical MAN and WAN links. The old BCP definition, RFC1638,...

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