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Everything about Port Aggregation Protocol
Proprietary link aggegration protocol
Port Aggregation Protocol (PAgP) is a Cisco Systems proprietary networking protocol, which is used for the automated, link aggregation of Ethernet switch ports, known as an EtherChannel. A similar protocol known as Link Aggregation Control Protocol (LACP) — released by the IEEE — is an industry standard and is not tied to a specific vendor. Wikipedia →
🧠Start here: a 6-step reading path
- Read the overview: Port Aggregation ProtocolA 5-minute orientation
- Skim a recent paper: CONTEXT-NET: A context-aware nexus-based aggregation protocol for opportunistic networksInfluential work since 2022
- Pick up a classic book: The Conspirators HierarchyThe most-reprinted book on the subject
- Read the landmark paper: Asynchronous Control Based Aggregation Transport Protocol for Distributed Deep LearningCited 3 times
- Go sideways: EtherChannelA closely related topic
- Go sideways: Link aggregationA closely related topic
đź“– Definitions
No dictionary entry for this exact phrase.
🗂️ The subject at a glance
🏆 Landmark papers (most cited)
Asynchronous Control Based Aggregation Transport Protocol for Distributed Deep Learning
Fairness and Applications’ transport protocol aware frame aggregation using programmable WLANs
🆕 Influential since 2022
đź“š Books worth reading
The Conspirators HierarchyJohn Coleman · 1992
TCP/IP IllustratedW. Richard Stevens, Kevin R. Fall · 1993
Discovering Computers 2018Misty E. Vermaat, Susan Sebok · 2017
Business data communicationsManish Agrawal · 2011
Ranked by number of editions on Open Library, a rough measure of how lasting a book is.
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