{{Unreferenced|date=April 2026}} The '''Metro Ring Protocol''' (MRP) is a Layer 2 resilience protocol developed by Foundry Networks and currently being delivered in products manufactured by Brocade Communications Systems and Hewlett Packard. 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.
==See also== *ITU-T G.8032 Ethernet Ring Protection Switching *EAPS, Ethernet Automatic Protection Switching
Category:Internet protocols Category:Link protocols
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