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Link aggregation (IEEE 802.3ad) enables you to bind two or more physical interfaces together to form an aggregated link. This new link has the bandwidth of all the links combined. If a link in the group fails, traffic is transferred automatically to the remaining interfaces with the only noticable effect being a reduced bandwidth.
This is similar to redundant interfaces with the major difference being that a redundant interface group only uses one link at a time, where an aggregate link group uses the total bandwidth of the functioning links in the group.
