Chapter 9. Link Aggregation
A link is a link, that's my instinct, And each of the links is distinct, I think. But aggregate the links, and blink — You'll see they work as one.
The frames source and sink, like any link, But now you'll have bandwidth galore, I think. And even with a failing link, The load can shift around.
If statistics tell you that the network's running slow, Use aggregated links to make the data really flow!
A link is a link, that's my instinct, And each of the links is distinct, I think. But aggregate the links, and blink — You'll see they work as one!
If a LAN link between two devices supports some level of communications, then why not use two or more links and multiply the communications power? This is precisely the idea behind link aggregation — a method for using multiple parallel links between a pair of devices as if they were a single higher-performance channel.
Sometimes referred to as trunking or bonding, link aggregation allows you to increase the capacity and availability of the communications channel between devices (both switches and end stations) without changing or upgrading the underlying technology.[] The concept is not particularly new; inverse multiplexers are commonly used in WANs to bond multiple slow-speed links together to form a higher-speed equivalent. Aggregation has been less commonly deployed in LANs because:
[] The term "trunk" is widely used by both vendors and network administrators to refer to aggregated LAN links. However, this ...
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