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A New Internet-Draft is available from the on-line Internet-Drafts directories. Title : Ethernet Automatic Protection Switching (EAPS), Version 1 Author(s) : S. Shah, M. Yip Filename : draft-shah-extreme-eaps-00.txt Pages : 7 Date : 2002-12-18 This document describes the Ethernet Automatic Protection Switching (EAPS) (TM) technology invented by Extreme Networks to better support operators of Ethernet MAN Rings. Many network operators have been moving to Ethernet technology from SONET technology in MANs because of the much better value proposition of the Ethernet technology. Many Metropolitan Area Networks (MANs) have a ring topology, as the fibre runs. The Ethernet Automatic Protection Switching technology described here works well in ring topologies for MANs or large campus networks. Also, most MAN operators want to minimise the recovery time in the event a fibre cut occurs. The Spanning Tree Protocol can take as long as 40 seconds to converge in the event of a topology change. The newer Rapid Spanning Tree Protocol is considerably faster, however its convergence time is still dependent upon the number of notes in the ring. Both STP and RSTP limit the number of nodes in the ring. The Ethernet Automatic Protection Switching (EAPS) technology described here converges in less than one second, often in less than 100 milliseconds. EAPS technology does not limit the number of nodes in the ring, and the convergence time is independent of the number of nodes. A URL for this Internet-Draft is: http://www.ietf.org/internet-drafts/draft-shah-extreme-eaps-00.txt To remove yourself from the IETF Announcement list, send a message to ietf-announce-request with the word unsubscribe in the body of the message. Internet-Drafts are also available by anonymous FTP. Login with the username "anonymous" and a password of your e-mail address. After logging in, type "cd internet-drafts" and then "get draft-shah-extreme-eaps-00.txt". A list of Internet-Drafts directories can be found in http://www.ietf.org/shadow.html or ftp://ftp.ietf.org/ietf/1shadow-sites.txt Internet-Drafts can also be obtained by e-mail. Send a message to: mailserv@ietf.org. In the body type: "FILE /internet-drafts/draft-shah-extreme-eaps-00.txt". NOTE: The mail server at ietf.org can return the document in MIME-encoded form by using the "mpack" utility. To use this feature, insert the command "ENCODING mime" before the "FILE" command. To decode the response(s), you will need "munpack" or a MIME-compliant mail reader. Different MIME-compliant mail readers exhibit different behavior, especially when dealing with "multipart" MIME messages (i.e. documents which have been split up into multiple messages), so check your local documentation on how to manipulate these messages. Below is the data which will enable a MIME compliant mail reader implementation to automatically retrieve the ASCII version of the Internet-Draft.
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