At least until the standards are done for 40G and 100G Ethernet, link aggregation will remain the preferred high-speed uplink method. Link aggregation, described in IEEE standard 802.3ad, binds ...
Gigabit Ethernet switch/routers offer blazing performance in basic configurations, but enabling a feature called link aggregation causes some devices’ throughput to tank, latency to leap, failover to ...
Nortel’s BayStack 5520 stackable switch offers better performance, increased link aggregation capacity, new Layer 3 forwarding and a 25% price drop compared with its predecessor. However, this line of ...