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Comprehensive Forwarding Plane Implementation
ZebOS® hardware integration includes an advanced Interface Manager that provides a logical view of hardware platform interfaces. The Interface Manager insulates interconnect topology details of merchant silicon chips within and across hardware platforms so that hardware platform physical and logical interfaces can be easily managed and configured from the control plane through the ZebOS Integrated Management Interface (IMI). The interface manager implementation encompasses L2 ports, L3 interfaces, aggregates (L2 or L3), Switched-Virtual-Interface, and all possible L2/L3/VLAN/aggregate hierarchies. The Interface Manager simplifies systems management and provides a uniform mechanism for all of the L2, L3 and MPLS protocols to view and interact with the physical and virtual interfaces.
ZebOS also contains a Packet Driver that provides a logical pipe between the control and forwarding planes for all L2, L3, multicast and MPLS protocol control packets.
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