I-D ACTION:draft-ietf-bmwg-lanswitch-01.txt

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 A Revised Internet-Draft is available from the on-line Internet-Drafts 
 directories. This draft is a work item of the Benchmarking Methodology 
 Working Group of the IETF.                                                

       Title     : Benchmarking Terminology for LAN Switching Devices      
       Author(s) : B. Mandeville
       Filename  : draft-ietf-bmwg-lanswitch-01.txt
       Pages     : 8
       Date      : 11/26/1996

The purpose of this draft is to define and discuss benchmarking terminology
for local area switching devices. It is meant to extend the terminology 
already defined for network interconnect devices in RFCs 1242 and 1944 by 
the Benchmarking Methodology Working Group (BMWG) of the Internet 
Engineering Task Force (IETF).                                    

LAN switches are one of the principal sources of new bandwidth in the local 
area and are handling a significantly increasing proportion of network 
traffic. The multiplicity of products brought to market makes it desirable 
to define a set of terms to be used when evaluating the performance 
characteristics of local area switching devices. Well-defined terminology 
will help in providing the user community with complete, reliable and 
comparable data on LAN switches.                                           

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