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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 furtherly 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.