The Generic Framing Procedure (GFP): An Overview
01 January 2002
The Generic Framing Procedure (GFP) is a recently standardized traffic adaptation protocol for broadband transport applications. It provides an efficiency and QoS friendly mechanism to map either a physical layer or logical link layer signal to a byte synchronous channel. It also supports basic client control functions for client management purposes. This article presents a brief overview of GFP.