Service Categories

To simplify certain functions such as resource provisioning and load advertisement, service types are grouped into service categories. For example, as shown in Table A-7, the ATM Forum service types CBR.1, CBR.2, and CBR.3 are grouped into the service category CBR.

Table A-7. ATM Forum Service Categories

Category	Name	Description
0x0100	CBR	Consists of CBR.1, CBR.2, and CBR.3
0x0101	VBR-RT	Consists of VBR-RT.1, VBR-RT.2, and VBR-RT.3
0x0102	VBR-NRT	Consists of VBR-NRT.1, VBR-NRT.2, and VBR-NRT.3
0x0103	UBR	Consists of UBR.1 and UBR.2
0x0104	ABR	Consists of ABR
0x0105 through 0x01FF	Reserved	Currently unused

Service categories are meant to accommodate ATM Forum service types.

For the rest of the service categoriesVSI, MPLS, vendor-specific, and Cisco-proprietarythe categories are the same as the corresponding service types.