Friday, December 9, 2011

Cisco/HP Trunk Nomenclature

There sometimes appears to be confusion among networking novices about what a "trunk" is.  I used this table to properly clarify for staff.

Technology / Vendor
Cisco
HP
Port Aggregation
Port Channeling (LACP)
Etherchannel (Cisco Proprietary)
Trunk (LACP)
VLAN Tagging (802.1q)
Trunk
Tagging

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