MPOA

• Requires LANE

• Takes advantage of ATM switching speeds

• Allows end devices attached to ATM to communicate directly instead of through a router

• Uses NHRP (Next Hop Routing Protocol) to establish a “cut-through” route to the destination

• Clients use LANE to resolve addresses within the same Virtual LAN (VLAN)

• Use MPOA for inter-VLAN addressing

• LANE is for layer 2 switching

• MPOA effectively performs layer 3 switching

• MPOA can use ATM’s QoS

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