From: Elias Chari (elias.chari@gmail.com)
Date: Sat Aug 05 2006 - 11:47:49 ART
The origin of "pseudo" is Greek which means not real or pretend to be
something is not. As for its use in the context of networking is as per
posts from Chris and Scott.
Rgds
Elias
On 8/5/06, Scott Morris <swm@emanon.com> wrote:
>
> "pseudo" is a term meaning "almost" or "like a" or "fake". So a
> pseudo-wire
> is "like" a wire going all the way across a WAN infrastructure. It
> creates
> a connection just as if you were local and had a real physical cable
> plugged
> in (close anyway). Or that's the intention of the term!
>
> L2TP and MPLS are used to simulate this connection.
>
> HTH,
>
>
> Scott Morris, CCIE4 (R&S/ISP-Dial/Security/Service Provider) #4713, JNCIE
> #153, CISSP, et al.
> CCSI/JNCI-M/JNCI-J
> IPExpert VP - Curriculum Development
> IPExpert Sr. Technical Instructor
> smorris@ipexpert.com
> http://www.ipexpert.com
>
>
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: nobody@groupstudy.com [mailto:nobody@groupstudy.com] On Behalf Of
> Jens
> Petter
> Sent: Saturday, August 05, 2006 5:29 AM
> To: ccielab@groupstudy.com
> Subject: pseudowire
>
> Hi all..
>
>
>
> I am not from an english speaking country and need some translation
> help.....
>
>
>
> I am reading up on the L2TPv3 feature and I keep coming over the term
> "pseudowire" as in :
>
>
>
> Xconnect for Layer 2 tunneling via a pseudowire over an IP network
>
>
>
> and I am having a hard time understand the term. Could somewon please
> explain to me what it stands for.
>
>
>
> Jens P
>
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