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Update on link aggregation
 
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Until now, IT managers have had to use proprietary methods to bind multiple Fast Ethernet or Gigabit Ethernet lines together into a single logical link. But that's about to change, as the IEEE finalizes a standard way of handling link aggregation.
As readers have pointed out, link aggregation has its advantages - primarily in that it provides a level of resiliency in a network with its multiple paths. If one line in the trunk fails, the rest can continue to send traffic.
The group working on IEEE 802.3ad intends to make it a standard by March. The standard will work for all speeds of Ethernet, using point-to-point, full-duplex links.
