Trunking Application Used With Switch; Single Ip Application - TRENDnet TEG-S2400i User Manual

5.2. Trunking Application used with switch

Trunking allows you to increase the available bandwidth between switches by grouping ports
into a trunk. Trunk can also be used to connect server to switches for higher bandwidth service
required. You can use trunking to improve the throughput between segments. Moreover, this
switch further provides trunk with fail-over function, that is, when one of the links of trunk is
fail or broken, the traffic originally go through that link will be automatically re-direct to other
links of trunk, this give the trunk with redundancy and greatly increase the value of trunking.

5.3. Single IP application

Single IP is a management utility of network devices for administrator to access private IP
devices through a single IP (real/public IP or private IP). By this utility, administrator can
manage many more network devices than ever and reduce the demand of real IPs, because every
real IP switch can be an agent host for any network devices in their private IP domain.
There are some defects in the current solutions of network management. For example, switches
with legacy "stack" capability have to stack together due to their special limited-length cables,
and have the limitation of stacking quantities and brand compatibility due to hardware
specification. Moreover, administrator always has troubles in finding out the target window
among those multi-display interfaces. Though there are expert network management utilities
available in the current market, like HP OpenView, expensive cost and difficult task of
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