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US 8,443,065 B1 7 typically as a printed circuit board as part of a rack mounted module. This can be as many as several thousand line cards at one fac
US 8,443,065 B1 unique system and port identi?cation, time-to-live informa tion for aging purposes, optional system capabilities such as the router, I
US 8,443,065 B1 11 power-via-MDI capabilities. The length-aggregation TLV advertises whether the link is capable of being aggregated and whether it is
US 8,443,065 B1 13 phones, fax machines, modems and credit card readers. An integrated voice mail can include 3,000 or more messages on eight ports an
US 8,443,065 B1 15 that is con?gured to be accessed via the Simple Network Management Protocol (SNMP) to determine the physical network connectivity d
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US 8,443,065 B1 1 SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR LOCATING, IDENTIFYING AND PROVISIONING NEWLY DEPLOYED NETWORK DEVICES FIELD OF THE INVENTION This invention re
US 8,443,065 B1 3 FIG. 4A is a diagram showing an example frame format for a Link Layer Discover Protocol (LLDP) organizationally spe ci?c TLV that ca
US 8,443,065 B1 5 network device. At least one of the physical and logical loca tion connection data comprises data regarding the ID of a logical EFM
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