QuestionQ14

Campus and Branch LAN Design

A customer is a growing enterprise with limited capital available for network-expansion investments. They have observed performance issues in their campus LAN that have been traced to a high oversubscription ratio between the aggregation and core layers. The customer's aggregation and core switches are connected by a single 1GbE link.

Which solution improves network performance?

  • A Add additional 1GbE connections between the aggregation and core layers with LACP.
  • B Add additional 1GbE connections between the aggregation and core layers with MACsec.
  • C Add additional 1GbE connections between the aggregation and core layers with PNAC.
  • D Add additional 1GbE connections between the aggregation and core layers with LLDP.
Explanation

LACP aggregates multiple 1GbE physical links into a single logical port channel, increasing the aggregate bandwidth between the aggregation and core layers and reducing the oversubscription bottleneck. It can also provide redundancy if an individual member link fails.

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