Multi-Chassis Link Aggregation
By Arista Networks
For many years, networks have been oversubscribed. Such oversubscription was tolerable in enterprise networks as the applications were not bandwidth intensive, but not anymore. In a datacenter, the primary reason for this oversubscription is insufficient uplink bandwidth from each rack. Each top-of-rack switch is typically connected to two aggregation switches for redundancy. However, half the uplinks are blocked by spanning tree to avoid loops in the network; this reduces the available bandwidth between the rack and aggregation layer of the network by 50%. Arista’s Multi-Chassis Link Aggregation (MLAG) feature removes this bottleneck and allows the utilization of all interconnects.
To learn how, download this paper from Arista Networks.
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May 31st, 2010 at 6:23 pm
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May 31st, 2010 at 10:23 pm
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Nick Lippis said:
June 1st, 2010 at 1:08 pm
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