What are the advantages of using a Tier-0 Gateway in ECMP mode? (Choose two.)

What are the advantages of using a Tier-0 Gateway in ECMP mode? (Choose two.)
A . stateful services leveraged
B . Failover of services
C . traffic predictability
D . traffic load balancing
E . increased north/south bandwidth

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Answer: D,E

Explanation:

From ICM manual:

Equal-cost multipath (ECMP) routing has several features and functions:

• ECMP routing increases the north-south communication bandwidth by combining multiple uplinks.

• ECMP routing performs traffic load balancing.

• ECMP routing provides fault tolerance for failed paths.

• A maximum of eight ECMP paths are supported.

• Hashing is based on 2-tuple IP source and destination addresses.

• ECMP routing is only available on Tier-0 gateways.