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On Ethernet interfaces, channel bonding requires assistance from both the Ethernet Switch and the host computer's Operating System , which must "stripe" the delivery of frames across the network interfaces in the same manner that I/O is striped across disks in a RAID array. For this reason, channel bonding is sometimes also called RAIN, or "redundant array of independent network interfaces."

Multiple Dialup links over POTS can be channel-bonded together in the same manner and can come closer to achieving their aggregate bandwidth than routing schemes which simply load-balance outgoing network connections over the links.

Similarly, multiple DSL lines can be bonded to give higher bandwidth; in the United Kingdom, ADSL is sometimes bonded to give for example 512kbit/s upload bandwidth and 4megabit/s download bandwidth, in areas that only have access to 2megabit/s bandwidth.