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 ...

I am looking at bumping up the available bandwidth in a couple of the wiring closets. Right now they have 1Gbps and I'd like to do 2Gbps. I also want it to failover to one pair if the link is severed ...

Servers also can use MEC’s link aggregation support, with no additional software needed. Multiple connections were already possible using “NIC teaming,” but that’s usually a proprietary, ...