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Edge devices are switches, routers, routing switches, IADs and a variety of MAN/WAN devices which are installed in the edge network to pass packets between the access devices and core/backbone network devices. An edge device does not participate in the running of any network layer routing protocol but it obtains forwarding descriptions using the route distribution protocol. It is a physical device using Data Link layer (layer 2) and Network layer (layer 3) technologies.

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