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80:(LAN) technology to interconnect the computers within a small organization in which these host computers were very close in proximity to each other. Over the years, Ethernet has become such a popular technology that it became the default Data Link Layer (OSI Layer 2) mechanism for data transport. This created a need for extending the Ethernet from a customer LAN bridging domain to service provider MAN, also known as the Provider bridging domain. For this, a 4 byte S-Tag or Service Tag, a type of Virtual LAN tag, was added to the header of the Ethernet frame in 342:
PBB defines a 48-bit B-DA and 48-bit B-SA to indicate the backbone source and destination MAC addresses. It also defines a 12-bit B-VID (backbone VLAN ID) and 24-bit I-SID (Service Instance VLAN ID). The bridges in the PBB domain switch based on the B-VID and B-DA values, which contain 60 bits total.
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QinQ does not offer true separation of customer and provider domains but is merely a way to overcome the limitations on the VLAN identifier space. It can also help in separation of the customer and provider control domains when used with other features like control protocol tunneling or Per-VLAN
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The idea of PBB is to offer complete separation of customer and provider domains. For this purpose, a new Ethernet header has been defined. This header may take multiple different forms, but the main components of the header are:
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standard. In the service provider domain, switching was based on S-Tag and destination MAC address, and C-tag was used to create virtual LAN within the customer domain. This technology is also known as QinQ or Q-tunneling.
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Spanning Tree etc. There is still the problem of having too little control on the MAC addresses, since QinQ forwarding is still based on the customer destination addresses. Thus, better mechanisms are needed.
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Bridges learn based on the B-SA and ingress port value and hence is completely unaware of the customer MAC addresses. I-SID allows distinguishing the services within a PBB domain.
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committee for standardization. The final version was approved by the
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They are (in order, from most significant to least significant):
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The right transport foundation for carrier Ethernet services
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in June 2008 and has been integrated into IEEE 802.1Q-2011.
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without losing each customer's individually defined
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Index

Provider Backbone Bridges
IEEE 802.1Q
networking
provider bridge networks
VLANs
Nortel
IEEE 802.1
IEEE
Ethernet
local area network
IEEE 802.1ad
IEEE 802.1Qay
Carrier Ethernet
IEEE 802.1
IEEE 802.1aq
Metro Ethernet
"Virtual Bridged Local Area Networks Amendment 10: Provider Backbone Bridge Traffic Engineering"
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