A.2. Fibre Channel
With Fibre Channel, you can cascade two switches by bonding (sometimes referred to as stacking) their backplanes with a 10GB to 20GB connection. Most environments use bonding in order to achieve very fast speeds between switches. From a security perspective, one nice feature of a stacked environment is that you can apply access controls across multiple switches.
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