Link Layer Discovery Protocol-Media Endpoint Discovery

Link Layer Discovery Protocol-Media Endpoint Discovery (LLDP-MED) defined in ANSI/TIA-1057, is an extension to the LLDP standard protocol as defined in IEEE 802.1AB. LLDP-MED provides support to deploy Voice over Internet Protocol (VoIP) telephones into the LAN environment. LLDP-MED provides additional TLVs for basic configuration, network policy configuration, location identification, and inventory management.

Following are the types of LLDP-MED devices:

Organizational-specific TLVs for LLDP-MED

The organizational-specific TLVs for use by LLDP-MED network connectivity and endpoint devices are: