Alcatel Carrier Internetworking Solutions SpeedTouch Speed Touch Home Asymmetric Digital Subscriber Line (ADSL) Modem - Manual (Page 57)

Bridge Ports Table
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Figure 33 'Bridge Configurations' Web Page
It contains the following information:
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Bridge Port
A Bridge port is in fact the logical equivalent of an interface. By
default the Speed Touch  Home supports one local port
(Ethernet interface) and up to maximum four remote
(ATM/ADSL) ports. Only the remote ports are shown in the table.
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Encaps
Encapsulation/Decapsulation refers to the encapsulation/
decapsulation of Ethernet V2.0 or IEEE 802.3 frames into/from
AAL5/ATM.
The STHome is compliant with RFC 1483 Multiprotocol
Encapsulation over ATM Adaptation Layer 5" and supports both
the LLC/Sub-Network Access Protocol (SNAP) method and the
VC MUX method for Bridged Ethernet V2.0/IEEE 802.3 Protocol
Data Unit (PDU).
By default the encapsulation method is set to LLC/SNAP.