Fabric Attach Components

FA components dynamically communicate with each other using FA signaling.

FA Signaling

FA has defined organizational specific TLVs within the standard LLDP protocol, to exchange messages and data amongst components of an FA solution. The FA TLVs facilitate handshaking and authentication, processing of requests for the creation of services, and providing responses on whether the requests succeeded. In addition, these services are deleted when the service requests are terminated, or when the authentication criteria are no longer valid. All components that participate in FA must be able to send, receive, and interpret the FA TLVs.

FA Components

FA includes the following network elements as components: