发明申请
- 专利标题： Partitioning of Switches and Fabrics into Logical Switches and Fabrics
- 专利标题（中）： 开关和织物分为逻辑开关和织物
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申请号： US12575603申请日： 2009-10-08
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公开(公告)号： US20110085557A1公开(公告)日： 2011-04-14
- 发明人: Sathish Kumar Gnanasekaran , Badrinath Kollu , Richard L. Hammons , Ramkumar Vadivelu , Dan Norbert Retter , Jianqiang Zhou , Ponpandiaraj Rajarathinam , Daniel Ji Yong Park Chung
- 申请人： Sathish Kumar Gnanasekaran , Badrinath Kollu , Richard L. Hammons , Ramkumar Vadivelu , Dan Norbert Retter , Jianqiang Zhou , Ponpandiaraj Rajarathinam , Daniel Ji Yong Park Chung
- 申请人地址： US CA San Jose
- 专利权人： BROCADE COMMUNICATIONS SYSTEMS, INC.
- 当前专利权人： BROCADE COMMUNICATIONS SYSTEMS, INC.
- 当前专利权人地址： US CA San Jose
- 主分类号： H04L12/56
- IPC分类号： H04L12/56
摘要：
A Layer 2 network switch is partitionable into a plurality of switch fabrics. The single-chassis switch is partitionable into a plurality of logical switches, each associated with one of the virtual fabrics. The logical switches behave as complete and self-contained switches. A logical switch fabric can span multiple single-chassis switch chassis. Logical switches are connected by inter-switch links that can be either dedicated single-chassis links or logical links. An extended inter-switch link can be used to transport traffic for one or more logical inter-switch links. Physical ports of the chassis are assigned to logical switches and are managed by the logical switch. Legacy switches that are not partitionable into logical switches can serve as transit switches between two logical switches.
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