That sounds right. Most of the scuttlebutt about it on the Internet seems to compare it to SONET for MANs.
Priscilla At 07:40 PM 2/28/02, Peter van Oene wrote: >I would suggest that the renewed focus on improving this technology stems >from the widespread and sometimes confusing opinion that large scale layer >2 networks make sense. Many vendors are rapidly pushing ethernet metro >networks that leverage STP for resiliency. Those customers who have >implemented such networks at scale are really struggling with the fact that >STP really doesn't work well at large scale :) Hence, you can fix the >network, or fix the protocol. Fixing the protocol seems less painless to >the customer, hence (predominantly) vendors are striving to do so. > >I further expect that much of the semi recent push toward rapid convergence >in both layer two and layer three stems from the current market condition >in the SP space that has left large ILECs as the primary source of revenue >as more and more of the xLECs fall by the wayside. Try explaining to >telco's that 45 second convergence isn't a bad thing. You're likely going >to lose. > > > >At 04:09 PM 2/28/2002 -0500, nrf wrote: > >Does anybody know exactly how Rapid Spanning Tree works, or have a link that > >describes it in detail? What I'm really interested in knowing is the > >technical details that make it better than old-school STP, and in > >particular, if RSTP is better, then why didn't the original STP designers > >make it like RSTP in the first place (not trying to criticize, I'm just > >interested in the evolutionary process of protocols)? > > > >What I find curious is that I searched and while I found that web sites > >freely discuss how RSTP is better (or not), or talk about which vendors have > >implemented it or not, I haven't found a single site that describes exactly > >what RSTP is doing from a technical perspective and why whatever it is doing > >is better than STP. Furthermore, I'm not a member of IEEE, so I guess I > >can't access the 802.1w doc. ________________________ Priscilla Oppenheimer http://www.priscilla.com Message Posted at: http://www.groupstudy.com/form/read.php?f=7&i=36928&t=36851 -------------------------------------------------- FAQ, list archives, and subscription info: http://www.groupstudy.com/list/cisco.html Report misconduct and Nondisclosure violations to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
