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steer definition - telecom
A restoral mechanism employed in Resilient Packet Ring (RPR). In the event of a node or link failure, the steer option calls for the originating station to exercise sufficient intelligence to avoid the failed ring and place the traffic on the ring that retains continuity. See also dual counter-rotating ring, fiber optics, link, node, RPR, and wrap.

Webster's New World Telecom Dictionary Copyright © 2008 by Wiley Publishing, Inc., Indianapolis, Indiana.
Used by arrangement with John Wiley & Sons, Inc.

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