Technology

What is Shortest Path Bridging?

Shortest Path Bridging (SPB) is an 802.1aq IEEE (Institute of Electrical and Electronic Engineers) standard whose important focus was to highlight and address the challenges of Spanning-tree. But SPB can do much more than STPs emerge: SPB also provides MPLS-like VPN (Virtual Private Network) services but is very significantly simpler to deploy and maintain also. […]