Spanning Tree Protocol continues to play an important role in today's networks for loop prevention. Despite the inherent issues of inefficient use of bandwidth, scalability limitations, and overall management complexity, it is one of the most basic implementations that are deployed on existing legacy networks. Because of this large install base, major networking vendors must be able to seamlessly integrate its products and solutions into an existing deployment running any basic or enhanced spanning tree modes such as Rapid Spanning Tree Protocol (RSTP), also known as 802.1w, or Multiple Spanning Tree (MST), also known as 802.1s.
Dell EMC SmartFabric OS10 fully interoperates and integrates into an existing deployment. This interoperability document runs through several of the most common spanning tree deployments and shows how implementations of OS10 provide great performance and high-availability during a link failure in the network.