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title: Maintaining Network Visibility While Implementing Cisco's EtherChannel
description: Etherchannel architecture is a stop-gap approach to meeting increased bandwidth demands. It virtually widens the data pipes to help enterprises scale capacity.
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# Implementing Cisco's EtherChannel®

Maintaining Network Visibility 

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### While the technical details regarding the tagging, aggregating and load balancing processes necessary for EtherChannel are complex, the reasons to adopt the technology are simple—bandwidth demands are growing out of control and enterprises can't always migrate their infrastructure accordingly.

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The Enterprise Bandwidth Dilemma

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The Origin of Port Channel Architecture - Cisco's EtherChannel Technology

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Out-of-Band Monitoring and In-Line Security Appliance Visibility for Port Channel Architecture

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