Main Benefit of RSTP over STP

RSTP is an enhanced version of STP and was designed to overcome the limitations of STP.

Faster convergence time to reduce network downtime and performance improvement.

Detect changes in network topology in quick manner and reconfigure network.

Supports rapid convergence less than 1 second.

Proposal and agreement handshake on point-to-point links is used instead of timer.

Supports multiple spanning trees per VLANs and per VLAN spanning trees.

Supports VLANs and faster convergence over VLANs.