IEEE standard for information technology . Part 17 : telecommunications and information exchange between systems-- local and metropolitan area networks-- specific requirements : Resilient packet ring (RPR) access method and physical layer specifications, Amendment 2 : Protected inter-ring connection / / Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers

• Record Nr.: UNINA9910135490103321
• Pubbl/distr/stampa: New York, New York : , : IEEE, , 2010
• ISBN: 0-7381-6229-9
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (ix, 194 pages) : illustrations
• Collana: IEEE Std ; ; 802.17c-2010
• Disciplina: 004.68
• Soggetti: Local area networks (Computer networks); Metropolitan area networks (Computer networks)
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Sommario/riassunto: 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.