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Answer added by  Shaikh Muhammad Adeel, Sr Pre Sales Engineer, SysCons Computers LLC
8 years ago

what really counts is the number of different Vlans involved.   With 50 Vlans you can use PVST without any concerns.   If you decide to use MST you need to provision some ... See More

 

Answer added by  هاشم المشارقة, Key Account Manager, Advanced United Systems Ltd. ( A member of Taj Holding Group)
8 years ago

Please refer to the following article Multiple Spanning Tree (MST) https://networklessons.com/spanning-tree/multiple-spanning-tree-mst/    

 

Answer added by  Syed Javed, it consultant, Infosys
8 years ago

Squeezes multiple VLANs (in 100s) into as few as you like to thus reducing the spanning-tree protocol instances in your network.

 

Answer added by  Deleted user
8 years ago

The benefit is having multiple root bridges for different vlans to load-balance the level 2 traffic and have redundant root bridges for each bundle of vlans.

 

Answer added by  Mohammed Imtiaz Ali Ahsan, IT Resident Engineer, DXC Technology - P&G Account
8 years ago

Multiple Spanning Tree (MST) is an IEEE standard inspired from the Cisco proprietary Multiple Instances Spanning Tree Protocol (MISTP) implementation.   The Multiple Span ... See More