CNNA3-Chapter 5

As businesses become increasingly dependent on the network, the availability of the network infrastructure becomes a critical business concern. • Redundancy is the solution for achieving the necessary availability. • Layer 2 redundancy improves the availability of the network by implementing alternate network paths by adding equipment and cabling. • Having multiple paths for data to traverse the network allows for a single path to be disrupted without impacting the connectivity of devices on the network...