Mct components – Brocade Multi-Service IronWare Switching Configuration Guide (Supporting R05.6.00) User Manual

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Multi-Service IronWare Switching Configuration Guide

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About Multi-Chassis Trunk (MCT)

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Interaction with MRP to build larger resilient Layer 2 domains

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Enhancement to Link Aggregation Groups

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Provides nodal redundancy in addition to link and modular redundancy

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Operates at the physical level to provide sub-second failover

FIGURE 172

How MCT works

MCT components

To properly understand MCT, consider

Figure 173

, which shows an example of MCT deployment,

functions and features.

FIGURE 173

MCT Components

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