An aggregation switch is a network device that consolidates traffic from multiple access switches, wireless access points, or other edge devices and forwards it to core switches or routers. By bundling multiple network connections into a single high-bandwidth link, aggregation switches help. Link aggregation is the ability for network switches to combine multiple physical links into one logical link between the switches. This is commonly done to provide increased bandwidth between the switches and redundancy in the event of one of the links failing. This article looks at what each such tool does, compares how they differ from each other, and offers suggestions as to what sort of network each. Switch aggregation, also known as link aggregation or trunking, is a method used in computer networking to combine (aggregate) multiple network connections in parallel. Amounts or summary statistics are used in place of atomic data rows, which are often collected from several sources when data is aggregated.
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