Bonding protocol (short for "Bandwidth On Demand Interoperability Group") is a generic name for a method of bonding or aggregation of multiple physical links to form a single logical link.
Bonding is the term often used in
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implementations: on Windows based systems the term
teaming is often used, and between network-devices we talk about link aggregation, LAG and
Link Aggregation Control Protocol.
Major categories
* Asynchronous bonding protocol
* Synchronous bonding protocol
See also
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Channel bonding
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Inverse multiplexer
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Link aggregation
References
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