In addition to what has already been said, there are restrictions on the differential delay that the four links can have when running in this mode, rather than aggregating at a higher layer.
The benefit is that you get true load balancing, which is hard to achieve either with 'as' interfaces or IP layer load balancing. Regards Michael > -----Original Message----- > From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of > German Martinez > Sent: 01 February 2007 14:46 > To: juniper-nsp@puck.nether.net > Subject: [j-nsp] Optical integration - optical IMUX > > > Hello, > Could someone from Juniper comment about this article? > > http://www.juniper.net/company/newsletter/jnews_article_070101.html > > What will be the diffence of running this or running 4 links > in paralel? > > Thanks! > German > _______________________________________________ > juniper-nsp mailing list juniper-nsp@puck.nether.net > https://puck.nether.net/mailman/listinfo/juniper-nsp > _______________________________________________ juniper-nsp mailing list juniper-nsp@puck.nether.net https://puck.nether.net/mailman/listinfo/juniper-nsp