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Optical Fiber Telecommunications VB, 5th Edition
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Optical Fiber Telecommunications VB, 5th Edition

by Ivan Kaminow, Tingye Li, Alan E. Willner
July 2010
Intermediate to advanced content levelIntermediate to advanced
928 pages
33h 42m
English
Academic Press
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signals are represented using special 64B66B code words. Thus they are terminated
in the physical layer and not passed up to the upper layers.
9.4 LAYER-2 FUNCTIONS IN ETHERNETS
Layer-2 functions include MAC and Ethernet frame switching, which is also called
bridging. Unlike traditional circuit switched networks, Ethernet is a packet
switched technology. Every Ethernet frame is labeled with a source address (SA)
and a destination address (DA) which are used by Ethernet bridges to forward the
frame to the proper dest ination. The IEEE 802.3 standard only covers the MAC
portion. Ethernet bridging is covered by the IEEE 802.1 standards. The most
important ...
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ISBN: 9780123741721