There's been quite a bit of change in the 802.17 RPR standard proposal over the past couple of years. This discussion will provide a status update on where the 802.17 standard is, as well as an update on some of the differences between the 802.17 standard and SRP/DPT. A possible timeline for RPR product rollout based on a current view of the 802.17 standards progress will also be discussed.

About the Presenter
Andrew Brown has been with Cisco Systems for over three years. He oversees the testing of Cisco's Resilient Packet Ring (RPR) products that use the pre-standard RPR protocol, called Spatial Reuse Protocol (SRP). Andrew is responsible for defining Cisco's overall test strategy and methodology for 802.17 RPR interoperability testing.