Chapter 80: SPB service management

Overview

Purpose

Shortest Path Bridging (SPB) is supported on OS 6900 and OS 10K NEs, Release 7.3.2 and later. SPB uses the Provider Backbone Bridge (PBB) network model to encapsulate (using IEEE 802.1ah headers) and tunnel customer traffic through the network backbone. The shortest path trees upon which the PBB network infrastructure operates are determined using a version of the Intermediate System-to-Intermediate System (IS-IS) link state protocol that supports TLV extensions for SPB (ISISSPB).

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