IEEE 802.17c-2010.pdf

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IEEE Std 802.17c-2010
(Amendment to IEEE Std 802.17-2004
as amended by IEEE Std 802.17b-2007)

IEEE Standard for Information technology—
Telecommunications and information exchange between systems—
Local and metropolitan area networks—
Specific requirements
Part 17: Resilient packet ring (RPR) access method and physical layer specifications
Amendment 2: Protected inter-ring connection

Approved 25 March 2010

Abstract: A service provider’s use of the architecture and protocols of IEEE 802.17 to support ring interconnection through dual station homing, providing 50 ms protection, loop prevention, and load balancing of traffic between rings, is added by this amendment.
Keywords: bridging, fairness, layer management, medium access control, metropolitan area network (MAN), physical layer, protection switching, resilient packet ring (RPR), ring topology, spatial reuse, topology detection