Avaya 580 사용자 설명서

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User Guide for the Avaya P580 and P882 Multiservice Switches, v6.1

Chapter 6

Hunt groups expand the capacity of the core switched backbone. While 
there is no specific limit on the number of ports in a hunt group (see “

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consists of two full-duplex Gigabit Ethernet links shared between two 
switches, for an aggregate capacity of 4 Gbps. Enterprise-level servers can 
be directly attached to the switching core using either 100 Mbps or Gigabit 
Ethernet connections. Fault-tolerant spanning tree links from the core to the 
next level of network spread the distribution and capacity to building or 
departmental switching centers. Each of these next-level switches may in 
turn support tens (or even hundreds) of work group switches and users.

This section contains the following information and procedures:

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Hunt group features include:

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Shared traffic load.

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Fault tolerance — If a port in a group fails, the remaining ports in 
the group pick up the traffic load.

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Support for any number of same-speed same media type 
connections in a group — The group is not restricted to a single 
module in a switch.