These tools are provided as a template to demonstrate the many ways
that the devices incorporating RPR can yield superior ROI.
RPR creates a shared ring with a common signaling and control plane implemented
in the standards based IEEE 802.17 MAC. Capital and operating expenses are lower
when management and switching functions are automated at lower layers of the OSI
model due to reduced manpower required for designing and maintaining network
wide QoS.
Point-to-point connections must be individually and manually configured. The common
control plane among RPR nodes in a network enables the automation configuration
of services between endpoints without configuration of each intermediary point. This
means that customers and services can be added to the ring once and their configuration
information can be replicated across all the switches without further intervention.
This saves significant operational cost for physical or logical point-to-point topologies.
Ethernet rings exist but they are proprietary implementations. Likewise, Wave Division
Multiplexing is configured in logical point-to-point topologies even when the physical
topology is a ring.
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