Apparatus and method for a virtual hierarchial local area network
CA 2493383 C · Owner: Mancour, Timothy · Inventors: Mancour, Timothy; Sodder, Arnold; Didiodato, Louis
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A method and apparatus are provided for creating a virtual hierarchical local area network. A hierarchical framing technique allows a network architecture to realize a local area network hierarchy within the network. In this manner a first local area network hierarchy is defined by communication in a first frame format (24) between a first set of network devices and a second set of network devices. A second local area network hierarchy is defined by communication in a second frame format (48) between members of the second set of network devices. The second frame format includes the fields of a frame in the first frame format that is used to communicate between the first set of …
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