Using ActiveMQ > Configuring Transports > ActiveMQ Connection URIs > Static Transport Reference
The static transport provides a hard coded mechanism to discover other connections using a list of URIs. A connection using this discovery mechanism will attempt to connect to all URIs in the list until it is succesful.
`static:(uri1,uri2,uri3,...)?options**
static:(tcp://localhost:61616,tcp://remotehost:61617?trace=false,vm://localbroker)?initialReconnectDelay=100
| Option Name | Default Value | Description |
|---|---|---|
| initialReconnectDelay | 10 | How long to wait before the first reconnect attempt (in ms) |
| maxReconnectDelay | 30000 | The maximum amount of time we ever wait between reconnect attempts (in ms) |
| useExponentialBackOff | true | Should an exponential backoff be used btween reconnect attempts |
| backOffMultiplier | 2 | The exponent used in the exponential backoff attempts |
| maxReconnectAttempts | 0 | If not 0, then this is the maximum number of reconnect attempts before an error is sent back to the client |
| minConnectTime | 500 | If a connaction fails faster than this amount of time then it is considered a connection failure |
As the static transport protocol is for broker discovery, it should not be used by client programs. Clients wishing to failover to a static list of broker instances, should use the [failover://](http://activemq.apache.orgUsing ActiveMQ/Configuring Transports/ActiveMQ Connection URIs/failover-transport-reference) transport instead.