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 ...

Frame aggregation techniques have revolutionised the way wireless local area networks (WLANs) manage data transmission by combining multiple frames into a single, larger frame. This approach ...