Bridge Functions Consortium (BFC)

FAQ

Test Suites

Current Members

Equipment List

Tools

Join Us

About the Bridge Functions Consortium

Founded in 1997 as an extension to member companies' internal laboratories, the Bridge Functions Consortium offers testing services focused on switching products implementing IEEE 802.1, 802.3ad, and IETF standards. The consortium test suites address both interoperability and conformance testing needs for "Layer 2" technologies.

An overview of services provided to members of the Bridge Functions Consortium can be found on the BFC Datasheet

Testing Services

By joining the Bridge Functions consortium, you gain access to interoperability and/or operations test suites for the following protocols:

• 802.1X - Port Based Network Access Control Authenticator Interoperability/Supplicant Operations
• FDB - Filtering Databases (802.1D-1998 and 802.1q)
• Jumbo Frames - Feature Verification
• LACP - Link Aggregation Control Protocol (802.3ad) Interoperability
• LLDP - Link Layer Discovery Protocol (802.1ab) and LLDP-MED Interoperability
• MACsec - MAC security (802.1AE)
• MSTP - Multiple Spanning Tree Protocol (802.1s-2005)
• QoS - Quality of Service Feature Verification
• Rate Limiting - Feature Verification
• RSTP - Rapid Spanning Tree (802.1D-2004 AND 802.1w-2001)
• STP - Spanning Tree Protocol (802.1D-1998)
• TRILL - TRansparent Interconnection of Lots of Links (IETF RFC 6325)
• VLAN - Virtual Local Area Networks (802.1q)

Testing Development

The BFC Consortium is currently exploring developing test suites and services for the following protocols:

• CFM - Connectivity Fault Management
• MRP - Multiple Registration Protocol
• SPB - Shortest Path Bridging (802.1aq)
• QinQ