VPC=S/MLT?

Fri Jan 13 19:31:56 UTC 2012

On 1/13/12 11:19 , -Hammer- wrote:
> OK, So I'm doing a lot of reading lately on Nexus as we are about to get
> into the 7k/5k game and of course a lot of the marketing revolves around
> VPC. Every time I see it referenced, I keep remembering a reasonably
> reliable Nortel implementation called Split MLT (Multi Link Trunk). Is
> there something fancy here that I'm missing in the docs or am I wrong in
> equating the two? Isn't VPC just S/MLT? It's just that Cisco has shown
> up 8 years late and is trying to hype it up to compensate?

vpc/vlt/mlag/s/mlt