IEEE 802.17 RPR Draft Moves to Sponsor Approval

The IEEE 802.17 RPR Working Group has forwarded the RPR draft standard for Sponsor Ballot, the penultimate step in the standardization process. The fully ratified IEEE 802.17 RPR Standard is expected to be published in mid-2004.


"The Working Group has worked diligently for more than two years to create an RPR standard that meets the needs of today's metro networks," said John Hawkins, chair of the RPR Alliance and senior marketing manager of Optical Ethernet for Nortel Networks.


"As the telecom industry continues its recovery, carriers are increasingly considering standardized RPR a cost-effective solution for the delivery of carrier-class voice, data, and video over existing SONET/SDH rings," said Martin Green, vice president of marketing for the RPR Alliance and product manager at Cisco Systems.


The RPR Alliance is an industry advocacy group promoting RPR technology and its standardization by IEEE.
http://www.RPRAlliance.org