Invention Grant
- Patent Title: Data center interconnect and traffic engineering
- Patent Title (中): 数据中心互联和流量工程
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Application No.: US12410745Application Date: 2009-03-25
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Publication No.: US08160063B2Publication Date: 2012-04-17
- Inventor: David A. Maltz , Albert G. Greenberg , Parveen K. Patel , Sudipta Sengupta , Parantap Lahiri
- Applicant: David A. Maltz , Albert G. Greenberg , Parveen K. Patel , Sudipta Sengupta , Parantap Lahiri
- Applicant Address: US WA Redmond
- Assignee: Microsoft Corporation
- Current Assignee: Microsoft Corporation
- Current Assignee Address: US WA Redmond
- Agency: Vierra Magen Marcus & DeNiro LLP
- Main IPC: H04L12/56
- IPC: H04L12/56 ; H04J1/16

Abstract:
A system for commoditizing data center networking is disclosed. The system includes an interconnection topology for a data center having a plurality of servers and a plurality of nodes of a network in the data center through which data packets may be routed. The system uses a routing scheme where the routing is oblivious to the traffic pattern between nodes in the network, and wherein the interconnection topology contains a plurality of paths between one or more servers. The multipath routing may be Valiant load balancing. It disaggregates the function of load balancing into a group of regular servers, with the result that load balancing server hardware can be distributed amongst racks in the data center leading to greater agility and less fragmentation. The architecture creates a huge, flexible switching domain, supporting any server/any service, full mesh agility, and unregimented server capacity at low cost.
Public/Granted literature
- US20090303880A1 DATA CENTER INTERCONNECT AND TRAFFIC ENGINEERING Public/Granted day:2009-12-10
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