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Multi-link trunking (MLT) is a link aggregation technology developed at Nortel in 1999. It allows grouping several physical Ethernet links into one logical Ethernet link to provide fault-tolerance and high-speed links between routers, switches, and servers.
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| Subject | Predicate | Object | Confidence | Src |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| a server | instance of | which could be another switch or a network device | 0.80 | text |
| Open Shortest Path First | instance of | traffic never needs to traverse the IST and the total forwarding capacity of the switches in the cluster is also aggregated.The communication between peer switches across the IS… | 0.80 | text |
| voice | instance of | making SMLT appropriate in environments running time- and loss-sensitive applications | 0.80 | text |
| video.In a network using SMLT | instance of | making SMLT appropriate in environments running time- and loss-sensitive applications | 0.80 | text |
| it is often no longer necessary to run a Spanning Tree Protocol of any kind since there are no logical bridging loops introduced by the presence of the IST | instance of | making SMLT appropriate in environments running time- and loss-sensitive applications | 0.80 | text |
| Multi-link trunking | related to Distributed multi-link trunking | Distributed | 0.60 | section |
| Multi-link trunking | related to Distributed multi-link trunking | DMLT | 0.60 | section |
| Multi-link trunking | related to Distributed multi-link trunking | MLT | 0.60 | section |
| Multi-link trunking | related to Distributed multi-link trunking | Nortel Networks | 0.60 | section |
| Multi-link trunking | related to Distributed multi-link trunking | Extreme Networks | 0.60 | section |
| Multi-link trunking | related to Distributed multi-link trunking | The | 0.60 | section |
| Multi-link trunking | related to Distributed split multi-link trunking | Distributed | 0.60 | section |
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