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AFDX

• Full duplex switched Ethernet
• 100 MBit
• 100% standard
• Media can be copper or fiber optic
• Standard core IP protocol (IP = Internet Protocol) with most features disabled
• Data exchange protocol: UDP (User Datagram Protocol)
• High-level protocols
  • Error monitoring: SNMP (Simple Network Management Protocol)
  • Download / upload: TFTP (Trivial File Transfer Protocol)
• Traffic shaping on Ethernet level by end systems and switches by means of virtual link and bandwidth allocation gap
  Goal: Guaranteed maximum delays and jitter in entire network