Tuesday, October 1, 2024 15:00 MLIT Room 310, Online seminar via Webinar Baginyan A., Balandin A., Dolbilov A.Analysis of multi-channel links using the examples of the JINR Data Center Speaker: A. Baginyan Abstract: Is it possible to combine several links into one? There are many misconceptions and myths surrounding this topic; even experienced network engineers often don't know this is possible. In most cases, link aggregation is mistakenly called virtual router redundancy protocol balancing. But real Aggregation allows you to launch one single TCP connection simultaneously over all Internet channels, for example, a video broadcast, so that if any of the Internet channels are interrupted, the broadcast will not be interrupted. The work is devoted to studying the operation of the Leaf-Spine Architecture, Link Aggregation, spanning tree protocol, Shortest Path Bridging, Stack, Virtual Port Channels, Transparent Interconnection of Lots of Links protocol, H3C Intelligent Resilient Framework using the example of the JINR data center in comparison with a new solution based on OpenMPTCPRRouter server. The uneven loading of channels during 4-channel data transmission in a network fabric with the TRILL protocol is shown. The OpenMPTCPRouter project is very interesting and important, since it is perhaps the only open comprehensive solution to the problem of channel aggregation. There is a large field for research in this direction. Сonnecting to Webinar. Information on the seminar and the link to connect are available at Indico.