EtherChannel
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EtherChannel technology is a trunking technology that allows grouping several Ethernet links and is capable of load balancing traffic across those links. Traffic is distributed across the links, providing higher performance and redundant parallel paths. When a link fails, traffic is redirected to the remaining links within the channel without user intervention and with minimal packet loss. It has largely been supplanted by the IEEE 802.3ad standard.
EtherChannel technology was first offered by Kalpana in its switches in the early 1990s.
