Metro Ring Protocol

The Metro Ring Protocol (MRP) is a proprietary Layer 2 resilience protocol developed by Foundry Networks and currently[when?] being delivered in products manufactured by Brocade Communications Systems and Hewlett Packard.: 322  The protocol quite tightly specifies a topology in which layer 2 devices, usually at the core of a larger network, are configured and as such is able to achieve much faster failover times than other Layer 2 protocols such as Spanning Tree Protocol.

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  1. ↑ "Configuring Metro Features". Foundry Networks. Archived from the original on June 29, 2007. The Metro Ring Protocol (MRP) is a Foundry proprietary protocol that prevents Layer 2 loops and provides fast reconvergence in Layer 2 ring topologies.
  2. ↑ Masuda, Hideo; Murata, Kazuyoshi; Shibuya, Yu (October 11, 2009). "Low TCO and high-speed network infrastructure with virtual technology". Proceedings of the 37th annual ACM SIGUCCS fall conference: communication and collaboration. SIGUCCS '09. New York, NY, USA: Association for Computing Machinery: 321–324. doi:10.1145/1629501.1629563. ISBN 978-1-60558-477-5.{{cite journal}}: CS1 maint: periodical has ISBN (link)