DC-LANE Services In An ATM Stack

DC-LANE Services provides support for LAN Emulation (LANE) Services, as defined by the ATM Forum LUNI (LANE V2.0) Specification.

Functions And Features

DC-LANE Services includes the following functions.

• Conformance to the LANE Emulation Over ATM V2.0 (LUNI) specification
• Two distinct components, which can be co-located on the same network device:
  • DC-LECS, implementing the LANE Configuration Server functions
  • DC-LES/BUS, implementing the LANE Server and Broadcast and Unknown Server functions
• Support for UNI 4.0 Signalling (with conversion to other Signalling protocols provided by DC-Call Control)
• Support for the LAN Emulation Server MIB
• Emulation of Ethernet LANs
• Flexible interface to the BUS Forwarder data path component allows an implementation to resolve unicast addresses to Multicast Send VCCs.
• Two alternative implementations of the BUS Forwarder data path component, providing simple or extended (i.e. unicast address resolution) data forwarding function
• Support for the LAN Emulation Server MIBs.

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