BT.Distribution

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	BT	Distribution	Version:	0.2
	Document type:	Building Block Type	Owner:	S.A.D. Jumelet

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Description

This Building Block Type belongs to Working Area Network (NW). Distribution is a facility that offers data transport between two or more (logical and/or physical) data transport segments. This is accomplished by performing one or more of the following actions on data packets:

• Routing and forwarding;
• Address translation (manipulation of the source or destination address that's located in the packet headers);
• Media translation (changing the encapsulation type of data packets).

Optionally, forwarding decisions can be based not only on address information, but also on filtering criteria. However, for practical reasons this functionality is described in and assigned to the Building Block Type Traffic Filtering.

Examples of devices that perform Distribution functions are:

• Multilayer switches
• Routers
• SAN Directors.

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Pattern Variant	Brief Description	Owner	Maturity
PAT.Access Distribution	Access Distribution	J.A.H. Schoonderbeek	3
PAT.Data Transport	Data Transport	J.A.H. Schoonderbeek	2
PAT.Data Zone Protection	Data Zone Protection	J.A.H. Schoonderbeek	3