D-Link DGS-3200-16 User Manual - Page 79
Trunking, Understanding Port Trunk Groups
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xStack® DGS-3200 Series Layer 2 Gigabit Ethernet Managed Switch Trunking 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 five port trunk groups with two to eight ports in each group. A potential bit rate of 8000 Mbps can be achieved. Figure 3 - 15. Example of Typical 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. NOTE: If any ports within the trunk group become disconnected, packets intended for the disconnected port will be load shared among the other linked ports of the link aggregation group. Link aggregation allows several ports to be grouped together and to act as a single link. This gives a bandwidth that is a multiple of a single link's bandwidth. Link aggregation is most commonly used to link a bandwidth intensive network device or devices, such as a server, to the backbone of a network. 66