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	Title		: VPLS Interoperability with CE Bridges
	Author(s)	: A. Sajassi, et al.
	Filename	: draft-sajassi-l2vpn-vpls-bridge-interop-03.txt
	Pages		: 19
	Date		: 2006-7-13

One of the main motivations behind VPLS is its ability to provide 
connectivity not only among customer routers and servers/hosts but 
also among customer bridges. If only connectivity among customer IP 
routers/hosts was desired, then IPLS solution [IPLS] could have been 
used. The strength of the VPLS solution is that it can provide 
connectivity to both bridge and non-bridge types of CE devices. VPLS 
is expected to deliver the same level of service that current 
enterprise users are accustomed to from their own enterprise bridged 
networks today or the same level of service that they receive from 
their Ethernet Service Providers using IEEE 802.1ad-based networks 
[P802.1ad] (or its predecessor  QinQ-based network). 

When CE devices are IEEE bridges, then there are certain issues and 
challenges that need to be accounted for in a VPLS network. Majority 
of these issues have currently been addressed in IEEE 802.1ad 
standard for provider bridges and they need to be addressed for VPLS 
networks. This draft discusses these issues and wherever possible, 
the recommended solutions to these issues.

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