2024 Apr
Service Providers often deliver services to locations where cross-connections between the Service Provider and Subscriber, or between two Operators, are managed by a third party such as a data center provider or multi-tenant building owner.
This organization is known as the Cross-Connection Provider within this Standard. The ability to describe and request these cross-connections is required. The scope of the cross-connections described within this document is limited to Ethernet, what is commonly referred to as “Layer 0” through OSI Layer 2.
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