IEEE 802.1 is a

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of the

IEEE 802 IEEE 802 is a family of Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE) standards for local area networks (LAN), personal area network (PAN), and metropolitan area networks (MAN). The IEEE 802 LAN/MAN Standards Committee (LMSC) maintains ...

project of the

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. It is concerned with: * 802

LAN Lan or LAN may also refer to: Science and technology * Local asymptotic normality, a fundamental property of regular models in statistics * Longitude of the ascending node, one of the orbital elements used to specify the orbit of an object in sp ...

/ MAN architecture * internetworking among 802 LANs, MANs and

wide area network A wide area network (WAN) is a telecommunications network that extends over a large geographic area. Wide area networks are often established with leased telecommunication circuits. Businesses, as well as schools and government entities, us ...

s * 802 Link Security * 802 overall network management * protocol layers above the MAC and

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layers LAN/MAN bridging and management. Covers management and the lower sub-layers of OSI Layer 2,

IEEE 802.1 standards

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References

External links

802.1 Working group web site

802.1 WG - Project Authorization Requests
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