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• Addressing fields are only necessary when an SVC is used, and then only during call setup. When call is established, the PSN uses the LCI field of the data packet header to specify the virtual circuit to remote DTE

• Layer 3 uses three virtual circuit operational procedures: call setup, data transfer, and call clearing

  • SVCs use all three procedures
  • PVCs are always in data transfer mode

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