Link Aggregation · Two ports as one link
Two cables, one link that survives a cable failure
Link aggregation joins two ports of your Simply5 Gateway into one link. The link stays up when one cable or one port fails, and it can carry more traffic in total than a single port. Use it for an internet line, for the cable run to your core switch, or for both. It is for larger sites with many people online at once: campuses, hospitals, large hotels and co-living blocks.
Included in the Campus suite
On an Essential or Business site it is an add-on, paid once for the site. One add-on covers both the internet side and the LAN side.
On the internet side, the LAN side, or both
A gateway can hold one aggregated link of each kind. The ports are fixed, so there is nothing to work out.
An internet line on two ports
Your second internet line can arrive on Port 2 and Port 3 together. It is still one line from one provider, and it takes its place in failover like any other.
The core switch on two ports
The gateway’s last two ports become one link down to your core switch, carrying every network of the site or just one.
Your main line is left alone
Port 1, the main internet line, is never part of a pair. If a new link does not come up, the gateway is still reachable to put it right.
On a five-port gateway
Using both links leaves no single LAN port, so every wired device connects through the switch on the paired ports. The console says so before you save.
Two modes, named for what they give you
Pick by what the device at the other end of the cables can do.
More capacity + backup
Both ports carry traffic and either can fail. The device at the other end needs the same two ports set up as an LACP group.
Backup only
One port carries traffic and the other takes over if it fails. The other end needs nothing special: two ordinary ports on the same device.
Capacity for many, not speed for one
Traffic is spread across the ports by connection. Many people at once get more room; a single download is not made faster.
Not a second provider
It protects one line against a cable or a port failing, not against that provider going down. A second internet line with failover still does that.
You hear when a link is on one cable
A link that has lost a cable still works, which is the point. It should not stay that way unnoticed.
Aggregated, Degraded or Down
The console shows each link’s state, and when it is running on one port it names the port that is down.
An alert after five minutes
A link running on one port for five minutes raises an alert for the site. It clears itself when the second cable is back.
Told before it changes
Joining or separating ports drops that link for a few seconds. The console says so and asks before it saves.
A billing change never cuts a link
If your plan ends or changes, a link that is already running keeps running. It can be switched off, but not changed.
Goes with
Each of these builds on the Simply5 Gateway at your site and is run from the same console.
More than one gateway at a site
Additional Gateway
An add-on to the Campus suite
Additional Gateway in detailHow you get it
It depends on your site’s suite. Either way, both kinds of link are covered.
Campus suite
Sites on Simply5 UAM Campus
Included
- Internet-side and LAN-side links
- Both modes
- Nothing more to buy
Link aggregation add-on
Sites on Essential or Business
Paid once, per site
- Internet-side and LAN-side links
- Both modes
- Stays with the site
From order to live
- 1
Check your suite
Campus includes it. On another suite, press Get the add-on in the console, which opens the online shop.
- 2
Prepare the other end
For more capacity, set the two ports on your switch as an LACP group. For backup only, any two ports will do.
- 3
Switch it on
Under Internet Sources for an internet line, or under Hardware, Ports for the core switch. Choose the mode.
- 4
Save
The link drops for a few seconds while the ports are joined, then comes up as one.
What you get
Included
- One aggregated internet line and one aggregated LAN link per gateway
- More capacity + backup, or backup only
- Works on copper Ethernet ports, two per link
- Status for each link and each of its ports
- An alert when a link is on one cable
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