公开(公告)号：US09059937B2

公开(公告)日：2015-06-16

申请号：US14245026

申请日：2014-04-04

申请人： International Business Machines Corporation

发明人： Sushma Anantharam ,  Alexander Philip Campbell ,  Keshav Govind Kamble ,  Dar-Ren Leu ,  Vijoy A. Pandey ,  Nandakumar Peethambaram

IPC分类号： H04L12/931 ,  H04L12/933

CPC分类号： H04L49/45 ,  H04L49/1507 ,  H04L49/356 ,  H04L49/40 ,  H04L49/65

摘要： A switch includes network ports and a network processor with a fabric interface that provides SerDes (Serializer/Deserializer) channels. The network processor divides each packet received over the network ports into cells and distributes the cells across the SerDes channels. Fabric ports of the switch communicate with the fabric interface to transmit cells to and receive cells from the fabric interface. The switch is selectively configurable as a standalone switch by connecting each fabric port of the switch to another of the fabric ports of the switch, as a member of a switch stack by connecting each fabric port of the switch to a different other switch through one fabric port of that other switch, or as a member of a distributed fabric system by connecting each fabric port of the switch to a different scaled-out fabric coupler (SFC) chassis by an SFC fabric port of that SFC chassis.

摘要翻译： 交换机包括网络端口和具有提供SerDes（串行器/解串器）信道的结构接口的网络处理器。 网络处理器将通过网络端口接收的每个数据包分成单元格，并将单元格分布在SerDes通道中。 交换机的Fabric端口与Fabric接口进行通信，以将单元传输到Fabric接口和从Fabric接口接收单元。 通过将交换机的每个结构端口通过一个结构连接到不同的其他交换机，将交换机的每个结构端口连接到交换机的另一个Fabric端口，作为交换机堆叠的成员，可以选择性地配置交换机作为独立交换机 端口，或通过将该交换机的每个Fabric端口通过SFC机箱的SFC结构端口连接到不同的扩展架构耦合器（SFC）机箱，作为分布式架构系统的成员。

公开(公告)号：US20140219286A1

公开(公告)日：2014-08-07

申请号：US14245026

申请日：2014-04-04

申请人： International Business Machines Corporation

发明人： Sushma Anantharam ,  Alexander Philip Campbell ,  Keshav Govind Kamble ,  Dar-Ren Leu ,  Vijoy A. Pandey ,  Nandakumar Peethambaram

IPC分类号： H04L12/931 ,  H04L12/933

CPC分类号： H04L49/45 ,  H04L49/1507 ,  H04L49/356 ,  H04L49/40 ,  H04L49/65

摘要： A switch includes network ports and a network processor with a fabric interface that provides SerDes (Serializer/Deserializer) channels. The network processor divides each packet received over the network ports into cells and distributes the cells across the SerDes channels. Fabric ports of the switch communicate with the fabric interface to transmit cells to and receive cells from the fabric interface. The switch is selectively configurable as a standalone switch by connecting each fabric port of the switch to another of the fabric ports of the switch, as a member of a switch stack by connecting each fabric port of the switch to a different other switch through one fabric port of that other switch, or as a member of a distributed fabric system by connecting each fabric port of the switch to a different scaled-out fabric coupler (SFC) chassis by an SFC fabric port of that SFC chassis.

摘要翻译： 交换机包括网络端口和具有提供SerDes（串行器/解串器）信道的结构接口的网络处理器。 网络处理器将通过网络端口接收的每个数据包分成单元格，并将单元格分布在SerDes通道中。 交换机的Fabric端口与Fabric接口进行通信，以将单元传输到Fabric接口和从Fabric接口接收单元。 通过将交换机的每个结构端口通过一个结构连接到不同的其他交换机，将交换机的每个结构端口连接到交换机的另一个Fabric端口，作为交换机堆叠的成员，可以选择性地配置交换机作为独立交换机 端口，或通过将该交换机的每个Fabric端口通过SFC机箱的SFC结构端口连接到不同的扩展架构耦合器（SFC）机箱，作为分布式架构系统的成员。