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Advanced Stacking Technologies
Networking vendors have used stacking as a technology to differentiate their solutions.

HP Networking Intelligent Resilient Framework (IRF)
Pioneered first by 3Com Corporation as eXpandable Resilient Networking architecture in 2003.

Advanced to a higher level by the 3Com joint venture-turned-division Huaweii-3Com H3C.

Characteristics are:
 * single IP management, common across nearly all true stacking implementations.
 * distributed link aggregation, which is the ability to share aggregated links across the series of stacked units. Common across most stacking implementations.
 * redundant resilient routing, where Layer 3 routing tables are actively shared across the series of stacked units.