- LLDP-MED
The Link Layer Discovery Protocol-Media Endpoint Discovery or LLDP-MED is an enhancement to the
Link Layer Discovery Protocol (LLDP) that is designed to allow for things such as:* Auto-discovery of LAN policies (such as VLAN, Layer 2 Priority and Diffserv settings) leading to "plug and play" networking.
* Device location discovery to allow creation of location databases and, in the case ofVoIP , E911 services.
* Extended and automated power management ofPower over Ethernet endpoints.
* Inventory management, allowing network administrators to track their network devices, and determine their characteristics (manufacturer, software and hardware versions, serial / asset number).The LLDP-MED protocol was formally approved and published as the standard ANSI/TIA-1057 by the
Telecommunications Industry Association (TIA) in April 2006.ee also
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*Link Layer Discovery Protocol
*OpenLLDP External links
* [http://www.tiaonline.org/standards/technology/voip/documents/ANSI-TIA-1057_final_for_publication.pdf ANSI/TIA-1057 published standard] (PDF)
* [http://wiki.wireshark.org/LinkLayerDiscoveryProtocol The Wireshark Wiki LLDP Page]
* [http://openlldp.sourceforge.net The Open Source LLDP Project - OpenLLDP]
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