We consider a Markov-modulated Brownian motion reflected to stay in a strip [0, B]. The stationary distribution of this process is known to have a simple form under some assumptions. We provide a short probabilistic argument leading to this result and explain its simplicity. Moreover, this argument allows for generalizations including the distribution of the reflected process at an independent, exponentially distributed epoch. Our second contribution concerns transient behavior of the model. We identify the joint law of the processes defining the model at inverse local times.

We consider a Brownian motion with time-reversible Markov-modulated speed and two reflecting barriers. A methodology depending on a certain multidimensional martingale together with some linear algebra is applied in order to explicitly compute the stationary distribution of the joint process of the content level and the state of the underlying Markov chain. It is shown that the stationary distribution is such that the two quantities are independent. The long-run average push at the two barriers at each of the states is also computed.