Example 1: Switch-to-switch MLT

The following illustration shows two multilink trunks (MLT1 and MLT2) connecting three switches.

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Switch-to-switch multilink trunks configuration

In this example, you can configure each trunk with multiple switch ports to increase bandwidth and redundancy. If traffic between switch-to-switch connections approaches single port bandwidth limitations, you can create a multilink trunk to supply the additional bandwidth required to improve performance, as well as providing physical link layer redundancy.