Design Reference

Table Of Contents
Chapter 17: Supported standards, RFCs,
and MIBs
This chapter details the standards, request for comments (RFC), and Management Information Bases
(MIB) that Avaya Virtual Services Platform 4000 supports.
Supported IEEE standards
The following table details the IEEE standards that Avaya Virtual Services Platform 4000
supports.
Table 16: Supported IEEE standards
IEEE standard Description
802.1aq Shortest Path Bridging (SPB)
802.1D MAC bridges (Spanning Tree)
802.1AX Link Aggregation Control Protocol (LACP)
802.1p VLAN prioritization
802.1Q Virtual Local Area Network (VLAN) tagging
802.1s Multiple Spanning Tree Protocol
802.1t 802.1D maintenance
802.1w-2001 Rapid Spanning Tree protocol (RSTP)
802.1X Extended Authentication Protocol (EAP),
and EAP over LAN (EAPoL)
802.1X-2004 Port Based Network Access Control
802.3 CSMA/CD Ethernet ISO/IEC 8802 International Organization for
Standardization (ISO) /International
Eletrotechnical Commission (IEC) 8802-3
802.3ab Gigabit Ethernet 1000BaseT 4 pair Category
5 (Cat5) Unshieled Twisted Pair (UTP)
802.3ae 10 Gigabit Ethernet
802.3af and 802.3at PoE – Power Over Ethernet
Network Design Reference for Avaya VSP 4000 February 2014 147