Planes in Networking
Type of Planes in Networking Conventionally speaking, we have three planes in any network device (routers, switches, etc.) viz. Control Plane, Data Plane, and Management Plane But, there exists one more plane, that is, Service Plane. The reason, why you won't find this plane mentioned in your textbooks, is because the term Service plane was officially coined very recently. We will discuss about this later in the section below. First, let's get started with the three conventional planes. Control plane and Data plane: Let's say you have three PCs (A, B, and C) connected over a switch(S) at your home and you want to send some bits/bytes of data (also called payload) from A to B. So this data (or payload) will be in the Data Plane of the switch S. Now, the switch S has to direct the packet, which contains the payload, to the port on which B is connected. To achieve this delivery of the packet, the switch S generates some bytes of data which control the jo...
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