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A BIT OF THIS, A BYTE OF THAT -- Layer 2 unification, and the rest of the enchilada.

Publication: Communication Systems Design
Publication Date: 01-FEB-03
Format: Online
Delivery: Immediate Online Access

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Byline: Loring Wirbel

Late last summer, executives at several OEM and component companies warned their technical staffs that membership in the Digital Subscriber Line Forum, Frame Relay Forum, Asynchronous Transfer Mode Forum, Metro Ethernet Forum, Multi-Protocol Label Switching Forum and Ring...

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...Resilient Packet Alliance was more than tight budgets could bear. Since most forum activity was geared to Layer 2 data-link unification, the managers argued, why not lump everything under a...

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