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Networking Explained, 2nd Edition
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Networking Explained, 2nd Edition

by Michael Gallo, William M. Hancock, PhD, CISSP, CISM
December 2001
Intermediate to advanced
656 pages
27h 19m
English
Digital Press
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necessary information for this partitioning (and eventual reassembly). These 53-byte cells,
called SIP level-2 PDUs, consist of 44 bytes of user information (called the payload or
segmentation unit), a 7-byte header, and a 2-byte trailer (Figure 13.8). SIP level-2 PDUs
represent the basic data unit on an SMDS network. These data units are then processed by
SIP level 1, which provides the physical interface to the SMDS network. This last level of
SIP consists of two sublayers: the transmission system and the physical layer convergence
protocol. The transmission system specifies how cells are to be placed on the ...
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