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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.