tag switching

A layer 3 switching technology from Cisco that is used in large enterprise networks (WANs). It uses tags (labels) containing forwarding information. Tag switching uses routers (Tag Edge Routers) that sit on the periphery of the network and make forwarding decisions for all the routers in the backbone. They append this information to each packet in fixed positions in the header that can be quickly examined by interior backbone routers (Tag Edge Switches), saving the time involved in decoding the packet and its associated table lookups. See MPLS.

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Code switching falls in three types intra-sentential, inter-sentential and tag switching (Poplack, 1980).Firstly, inter-sentential code switching takes place between sentences, clauses and turn takings.

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Some would argue that the introduction of IP and tag switching, both of which can use cell switching, improves routers as a vehicle for WAN consolidation.

Tag switching distributes IP routing functionality between tag edge routers and tag switches.

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And that RSVP Tag switching should get defined as the standard later on this year.