EECG CIDER Seminar

Tag Switching in the Internet

by 

Guy C. Fedorkow
Cisco Systems

WHEN: 	Friday, April 18 1997 at 12 NOON

WHERE:	GB220 (Galbraith Building)

ABSTRACT
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Tag Switching is a data communications technology that combines the simplicity
of label-swapping forwarding with network layer routing - providing many
advantages, especially to Internet Service Providers. It's well suited to high
performance implementation, due to its simplicity. And tags can have a range
of forwarding granularities - from one to a group of destinations. These
factors allow development of a routing system both feature-rich and scalable,
and simplified integration of routers and ATM switches through common
addressing, routing, and management procedures. This talk gives an overview of
Tag Switching architecture, providing examples of how the technology supports
unicast and multicast forwarding, quality of service, traffic engineering, and
hierarchical routing.