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'''Distributed Multi-Link Trunking''' ('''DMLT''') or '''Distributed MLT''' is a proprietary [[computer networking]] [[Protocol (computing)|protocol]] designed by [[Nortel|Nortel Networks]], and now owned by [[Avaya]],<ref>{{cite web

| author = Nortel Networks

| title = Patent US6496502

| year = 2008

| url = http://www.google.com/patents/US6496502

| accessdate = July 10, 2012 }}</ref> used to load balance the network traffic across connections and also across multiple switches or modules in a chassis. The protocol is an enhancement to the [[Multi-Link Trunking (MLT)]] protocol.

DMLT allows the ports in a trunk (MLT) to span multiple units of a stack of switches or to span multiple cards in a chassis, preventing network outages when one switch in a stack fails or a card in a chassis fails.

==Patent==

United States Patent 6496502<ref>

{{cite web

|title = Distributed multi-link trunking method and apparatus

|author = David B. Fite, Jr., Nicholas Ilyadis, Ronald M. Salett

|publisher = [[United States Patent and Trademark Office]]

|date = December 17, 2002

|url = http://www.google.com/patents?id=AGALAAAAEBAJ&printsec=abstract&zoom=4#v=onepage&q&f=false

|accessdate = 3 Sep 2011

}}</ref>

==See also==

* [[SMLT]]

* [[DSMLT]]

* [[RSMLT]]

* [[List of Nortel patents]]

==References==

{{Reflist}}

== Further reading ==

* {{cite book

|title = Ethernet MAN Services

|first = Kevin

|last = Roebuck

|publisher = Tebbo

|date = May 30, 2011

|page = 130

|isbn = 978-1-74304-426-1

}}

* [http://www.andovercg.com/datasheets/notrel-baystack-470.pdf Desktop Connectivity]

* [http://www.homenetworkingsupport.com/z/369048700004440 Using Distributed Multi-Link Trunking]

* [http://www.google.pl/patents/about/6496502_Distributed_multi_link_trunking.html?id=AGALAAAAEBAJ Distributed multi-link trunking method and apparatus] Google Patents

* [http://www.patentgenius.com/patent/6496502.html Distributed multi-link trunking method and apparatus] Patent Genius

* [http://www.patentstorm.us/patents/6496502.html Distributed multi-link trunking method and apparatus] Patent Storm

* {{cite journal

|title = European Telecom Newsletter

|publisher = Information Gatekeepers

|first1 = Dr. Paul

|last1 = Polishuk

|first2 = Dr. Hui

|last2 = Pan

|date=May 2003

|page = 16

|volume = 8

|number = 5

}}

==External links==

{{Wiktionary|DMLT}}

{{commons|Avaya}}

* [http://support.avaya.com/css/P8/documents/100134063 VLANs, Spanning Tree, and Multi-Link Trunking]

{{Avaya}}

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