Need for AppleTalk Routing

If you configure your Avaya P580 or P882 Multiservice switch into a network running AppleTalk routing, you should be aware of the following:

• Appletalk is built into all Apple devices, thus making them automatically network capable. This makes Apple an extremely easy network system to install and maintain.
• Due to the naming mechanism that AppleTalk uses, users do not have to understand how AppleTalk works.
• AppleTalk supports a peer-to-peer network, thus dedicated servers or centralized network are not required.
• AppleTalk is plug-and-play (auto-configuring). Therefore, users can plug an Appletalk device into an AppleTalk network and use it immediately. No network configuration or assignments of network addresses are needed when you add a device to an AppleTalk network.
• AppleTalk support zones, which makes it easier for network administrators to define work groups that consist of users and services that can span multiple networks segments.