Data center packet optical transport failure protection

    公开(公告)号:US10469921B2

    公开(公告)日:2019-11-05

    申请号:US15923713

    申请日:2018-03-16

    Abstract: In response to a connectivity disruption in an underlying optical transport ring supporting a routing and packet switching topology, one or more of optical devices of the optical transport ring are modified to establish connectivity between spine nodes in different data centers to reroute communication between at least a subset of the leaf network devices so as to traverse an inter-spine route via the optical modified optical transport ring. That is, in response to a connectivity disruption in a portion of underlying optical transport ring, one or more optical devices within the optical transport ring are modified such that packets between at least a portion of the leaf devices are rerouted along optical paths between at least two of the spine network devices.

    REDUCED CONFIGURATION FOR MULTI-STAGE NETWORK FABRICS

    公开(公告)号:US20190116116A1

    公开(公告)日:2019-04-18

    申请号:US16015724

    申请日:2018-06-22

    Abstract: A method includes receiving, by a first network device, messages from a plurality of network devices in a network, each of the messages indicating a level value of a respective sending network device in a network topology, determining, by the first network device and based on the respective levels indicated by the messages, a level value of the first network device in the network topology, determining, by the first network device and based on the determined level value, a mechanism by which to forward network traffic to one or more of the plurality of network devices, and forwarding the network traffic according to the determined mechanism.

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