LLDP |

P802.1AB-2016-Revision – Station and Media Access Control Connectivity Discovery

March 14, 2025

The standard defines a protocol and management elements, suitable for advertising information to stations attached to the same IEEE 802 LAN, for the purpose of populating physical topology and device discovery management information databases. The protocol facilitates the identification of stations connected by IEEE 802 LANs/MANs, their points of interconnection, and access points for management… read more »

P802.1Qcj – Automatic Attachment to Provider Backbone Bridging (PBB) services

July 11, 2023

This standard specifies the protocols, procedures and management objects for auto-attachment of network devices to Provider Backbone service instances by using Type, Length, Value (TLVs) within the Link Layer Discovery Protocol (LLDP) This amendment simplifies the deployment and administration of PBB networks, e.g. controlled by Shortest Path Bridging (SPB), by allowing for automatic configuration of… read more »

Addressing and Data Center Bridging (DCB)

April 16, 2018

This Task Group is not active at the moment. The addressing work is conducted in the OmniRAN TG and the data center bridging work is conducted in the TSN TG. The Addressing and Data Center Bridging (DCB) Task Group (TG) was a part of the IEEE 802.1 Working Group. For general information, please refer to… read more »