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Link Aggregation
Understanding Port Trunk Groups
Port trunk groups are used to combine a number of ports together to make a single high-bandwidth data
pipeline.
The Switch supports up to three port trunk groups with 2 to 8 ports in each group. A potential bit rate of
8000 Mbps can be achieved.
Figure 7- 7. Example of Port Trunk Group
The Switch treats all ports in a trunk group as a single port. Data transmitted to a specific host (destination
address) will always be transmitted over the same port in a trunk group. This allows packets in a data stream
to arrive in the same order they were sent.