bonding protocol

{{Short description|Bonding many physical links to form one logical link}}

Bonding protocol (short for "Bandwidth On Demand Interoperability Group") is a generic name for a method of bonding or aggregation of multiple physical links to form a single logical link.{{cite journal|title=The past, present, and future of inverse multiplexing|volume=32|issue=4|pages=42–46|id=Abstract|journal=IEEE Communications Magazine|publisher=IEEE Communications Society|doi=10.1109/35.275334|year=1994|last1=Fredette|first1=P.H.|s2cid=8022507 }} Bonding is the term often used in Linux implementations: on Windows based systems the term teaming is often used, and between network-devices we talk about link aggregation, LAG and Link Aggregation Control Protocol.