The format of the pseudowire switching TLV is as follows.
Figure: Pseudowire switching TLV format
- PW sw TLV Length
- specifies the total length of all the following pseudowire switching point TLV fields in octets
- Type
- encodes how the Value field is to be interpreted
- Length
- specifies the length of the Value field in octets
- Value
- octet string of Length octets that encodes information to be interpreted as specified by the Type field