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        RFC 2340:

        Title:      Nortel's Virtual Network Switching (VNS) Overview
	Author(s):  B. Jamoussi, D. Jamieson, D. Williston, S. Gabe
	Status:     Informational
	Date:       May 1998
        Mailbox:    jamoussi@Nortel.ca, djamies@Nortel.ca,
		    danwil@Nortel.ca, spgabe@Nortel.ca
	Pages:      14
        Characters: 30731
        Updates/Obsoletes: None


        URL:        ftp://ftp.isi.edu/in-notes/rfc2340.txt


VNS is a multi-protocol switching architecture that provides
COS-sensitive packet switching, reduces the complexity of operating
protocols like PPP and frame relay, provides logical networks and
traffic segregation for Virtual Private Networks (VPNs), security and
traffic engineering, enables efficient WAN broadcasting and
multicasting, and reduces address space requirements. VNS reduces the
number of routing hops over the WAN by switching packets based on
labels.

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Joyce K. Reynolds and Alegre Ramos
USC/Information Sciences Institute