Product category: Communications ICs (Wired)
News Release from: Zarlink Semiconductor | Subject: ZL50130
Edited by the Electronicstalk Editorial Team on 18 November 2003
Pseudo-wire chip cuts packet network
costs
The ZL50130 is the first Ethernet pseudo-wire processor for data services based on the industry's newest IP/Ethernet draft standard.
The ZL50130 is the first Ethernet pseudo-wire processor for data services based on the industry's newest IP/Ethernet draft standard The IETF's (Internet Engineering Task Force) PWE3 (pseudo-wire emulation edge-to-edge) working group has drafted a set of proposals for transparently tunnelling layer 2 traffic - such as Ethernet - across IP or MPLS (multiprotocol label switching)-based packet-switched networks by creating virtual LAN connections, called pseudo-wire connections
This article was originally published on Electronicstalk on 7 Feb 2001 at 8.00am (UK)
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