In August 2016, Gartner's Magic Quadrant selected Microsoft Azure as an industry leader in Cloud Infrastructure as a Service (IaaS). Nearly 90% of the Fortune 500 companies are using cloud services provided by MS Azure 2016. Among the prominent companies using Azure for cloud computing are Oracle, SAP, Rolls-Royce, NBC News channel, BMW, and GE Healthcare, to name just a few. The main reason behind choosing Azure is its effective management of physical servers and datacenters on the cloud.…

CCNA and CCNP candidates are well-versed in Spanning-Tree Protocol, and one of the great things about STP is that it works well with little or no additional configuration. There is one situation where STP works against us just a bit while it prevents switching loops, and that is the situation where two switches have multiple physical connections.

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You would think that if you have two separate physical connections between two switches, twice as much data could be sent from one…