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Bonders
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Bonders, also called Customer Premises Equipment (CPEs), are located at
the customer's location and perform the reverse operation of
aggregators. Bonders take traffic from the customer's local network and
split it between the legs of the bond as the traffic is forwarded to the
aggregator, and receive incoming traffic from the aggregator and combine
it back into the original data stream before sending it back to the
customer.

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Bonders also perform basic routing and network address translation.

Bonders are small hardware devices, from book-sized devices with AMD
Geode CPUs, to 1U rack-mount devices with Intel Core, Xeon, or
equivalent CPUs.


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