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Glossary

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Virtual Private LAN Service (VPLS)

A way to provide Ethernet-based multipoint-to-multipoint communication over IP/MPLS networks. It allows geographically dispersed sites to share an Ethernet broadcast domain by connecting sites through pseudo-wires.