Five protocols cover ring and parallel redundancy on Cisco industrial switches: REP (Cisco-proprietary ring convergence), MRP (the IEC 62439-2 ring standard PROFINET uses), DLR (ODVA's device-level ring for EtherNet/IP), and the two zero-loss IEC 62439-3 siblings —. Five protocols cover ring and parallel redundancy on Cisco industrial switches: REP (Cisco-proprietary ring convergence), MRP (the IEC 62439-2 ring standard PROFINET uses), DLR (ODVA's device-level ring for EtherNet/IP), and the two zero-loss IEC 62439-3 siblings —. This document provides basic background information regarding adding ring redundancy in your wired Ethernet networks. It will explore the N-Tron proprietary protocol N-Ring and how it is a step up from IEEE Spanning Tree and Rapid Spanning Tree Protocol (STP, RSTP). Examples for creating a. Device Level Ring (DLR) is a Layer 2 protocol that enables redundancy in a ring topology, providing fast network fault detection and reconfiguration for industrial networks. This article explores how redundancy ring protocols work, their key features, and a list of popular protocols, including proprietary solutions from. Ring redundancy is a network setup where industrial devices form a closed loop, not a single line. In an industrial ring network, switches and devices have more than one communication path.