Data transport applications using GFP.

Data transport applications using GFP.

An emerging generic framing procedure (GFP) standard defines a new data encapsulation protocol designed to accept and transport multiple protocols over metropolitan, storage, and wide area networks. Why is another data encapsulation method needed for transporting data traffic over WANs? How does GFP...

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Bibliographic Details
Published in:IEEE Communications magazine 40, 5 (2002).
Main Author: Scholten, M.
Format: Article
Language:English
Subjects:
SONET.
Asynchronous transfer mode.
Data communication.
Data encapsulation.
Local area networks.
Optical fibre networks.
Synchronous digital hierarchy.
Transport protocols.
Wide area networks.