Implementation and Analysis of The EtherChannel Technology Using PAgP and LACP Protocols on Cisco Switch Devices

A fast and reliable computer network is needed for a company. However, network infrastructure is often not considered, so the unmet network infrastructure needs become the background in this study. The problem of network infrastructure is very influential on the bandwidth of the network. Bandwidth issues can be fixed by using EtherChannel technology. In this research, EtherChannel technology is implemented, and the protocol is analyzed, namely PAgP and LACP. The scenarios in this research use the concept of client-server. The measured parameters are delay, jitter, packet loss, and throughput on file-sharing / FTP and video stream. The result on Delay, PAgP is around 12% better than LACP. Then in the Jitter test on FTP services, the PAgP protocol is 2.3% better than the LACP protocol in measuring FTP Jitter. And in the FTP Packet loss test, testing on the PAgP protocol is superior by getting a smaller percentage of packet loss, which is 0.18% in the PAgP protocol and 0.232% for the LACP protocol. The FTP throughput testing in the PAgP protocol gets an average yield of 83.8 Mbps, while the LACP protocol gets test results of 77.68 Mbps. While testing the video stream delay, jitter video stream, and video stream throughput, the LACP protocol is 2.2%, 23%, and 0.05% better than the PAgP protocol.