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Figure 28.3. Example of a Structured Wiring Configuration
Procedure 28.1. Design Considerations for RSTP in Structured Wiring Configurations
1.
Select the design parameters for the network.
What are the requirements for robustness and network fail-over/recovery times? Are there special
requirements for diverse routing to a central host computer? Are there any special port redundancy
requirements?
2.
Identify required legacy support.
Are STP bridges used in the network? These bridges do not support rapid transitioning to
forwarding. If these bridges are present, can they be re-deployed closer to the network edge?
3.
Identify edge ports and ports with half-duplex/shared media restrictions.
Ports that connect to host computers, IEDs and controllers may be set to edge ports in order
to guarantee rapid transitioning to forwarding as well as to reduce the number of topology
change notifications in the network. Ports with half-duplex/shared media restrictions require special
attention in order to guarantee that they do not cause extended fail-over/recovery times.
4.
Choose the root bridge and backup root bridge carefully.
The root bridge should be selected to be at the concentration point of network traffic. Locate the
backup root bridge adjacent to the root bridge. One strategy that may be used is to tune the bridge
priority to establish the root bridge and then tune each bridge’s priority to correspond to its distance
from the root bridge.