METHODS AND APPARATUS RELATED TO A MODULAR SWITCH ARCHITECTURE
    31.
    发明申请
    METHODS AND APPARATUS RELATED TO A MODULAR SWITCH ARCHITECTURE 有权
    与模块化开关结构相关的方法和装置

    公开(公告)号:US20100165984A1

    公开(公告)日:2010-07-01

    申请号:US12345502

    申请日:2008-12-29

    IPC分类号: H04L12/50

    CPC分类号: H04L49/15 H04L49/10 H04L49/45

    摘要: In some embodiments, an apparatus includes a first housing, a second housing and at least one cable. The first housing includes a first interface card of a switch fabric. The second housing includes a second interface card of the switch fabric and a third interface card of the switch fabric. The second interface card of the switch fabric is operatively and physically coupled to the third interface card of the switch fabric via a midplane. The second interface card defines a plane that is nonparallel to the a plane defined by the third interface card and a plane defined by the midplane. The plane defined by the third interface card is nonparallel to the plane defined by the second interface card and the plane defined by the midplane. The cable is configured to operatively couple the first interface card to the second interface card.

    摘要翻译: 在一些实施例中,装置包括第一壳体,第二壳体和至少一个电缆。 第一壳体包括交换结构的第一接口卡。 第二壳体包括交换结构的第二接口卡和交换结构的第三接口卡。 交换结构的第二接口卡经由中间平面操作和物理地耦合到交换结构的第三接口卡。 第二接口卡限定了与第三接口卡所定义的平面不平行的平面和由中平面限定的平面。 由第三接口卡定义的平面与由第二接口卡定义的平面和由中平面限定的平面不平行。 电缆被配置为将第一接口卡可操作地耦合到第二接口卡。

    METHODS AND APPARATUS RELATED TO LOW LATENCY WITHIN A DATA CENTER
    32.
    发明申请
    METHODS AND APPARATUS RELATED TO LOW LATENCY WITHIN A DATA CENTER 有权
    与数据中心中的低延迟相关的方法和装置

    公开(公告)号:US20100061240A1

    公开(公告)日:2010-03-11

    申请号:US12495358

    申请日:2009-06-30

    IPC分类号: H04L12/56

    摘要: In one embodiment, an apparatus includes a switch core that has a multi-stage switch fabric. The multi-stage switch fabric has a set of ingress ports and a set of egress ports. The switch core can be configured to be coupled to a set of edge devices via the set of ingress ports and the set of egress ports. The switch core can be configured to receive a packet from an ingress port from the set of ingress ports. The switch core can be configured to send a set of cells associated with the packet from the ingress port to an egress port from the set of egress ports without a store-and-forward delay associated with a zero-load latency for the switch core.

    摘要翻译: 在一个实施例中,一种装置包括具有多级交换结构的交换机核心。 多级交换结构具有一组入口端口和一组出口端口。 交换机核心可以被配置为经由一组入口端口和出口端口组来耦合到一组边缘设备。 交换机核心可以配置为从入口端口的一组入口端口接收数据包。 交换机核心可以被配置为将来自入口端口的与分组相关联的一组小区从出口端口发送到出口端口,而没有与交换机核心的零负载延迟相关联的存储转发延迟。

    Arbitration of packet switched busses, including busses for shared
memory multiprocessors
    34.
    发明授权
    Arbitration of packet switched busses, including busses for shared memory multiprocessors 失效
    分组交换总线的仲裁,包括共享内存多处理器的总线

    公开(公告)号:US5440698A

    公开(公告)日:1995-08-08

    申请号:US236883

    申请日:1994-04-29

    CPC分类号: G06F13/364

    摘要: An arbiter is provided for resolving contention on synchronous packet switched busses, including busses composed of a plurality of pipelined segments, to ensure that all devices serviced by such a bus are given fair, bounded time access to the bus and to permit such devices to fill all available bus cycles with packets. Flow control for shared memory multiprocessors is readily implemented with this arbiter because the arbiter supports different types of arbitration requests and the prioritization of such arbitration requests by type.

    摘要翻译: 提供了一种仲裁器,用于解决同步分组交换总线上的竞争,包括由多个流水线段组成的总线,以确保由这样的总线服务的所有设备被给予公平的有限时间的访问总线并且允许这样的设备填充 所有可用的总线周期与数据包。 共享存储器多处理器的流控制可以很容易地用这个仲裁器来实现,因为仲裁器支持不同类型的仲裁请求以及类型的这种仲裁请求的优先级。

    Methods and apparatus for providing services in distributed switch

    公开(公告)号:US10097481B2

    公开(公告)日:2018-10-09

    申请号:US13538344

    申请日:2012-06-29

    摘要: In some embodiments, a non-transitory processor-readable medium stores code representing instructions to be executed by a processor. The code causes the processor to receive, from a source peripheral processing device, a portion of a data packet having a destination address associated with a destination peripheral processing device. The code causes the processor to identify, based on the destination address, a service to be performed on the portion of the data packet. The code causes the processor to select, based on the service, an identifier of a service module associated with the service. The code further causes the processor to send the portion of the data packet to the service module via a distributed switch fabric such that the service module performs the service on the portion of the data packet and sends the portion of the data packet to the destination peripheral processing device via the distributed switch fabric.

    Methods and apparatus related to a flexible data center security architecture
    37.
    发明授权
    Methods and apparatus related to a flexible data center security architecture 有权
    与灵活的数据中心安全架构相关的方法和设备

    公开(公告)号:US08958432B2

    公开(公告)日:2015-02-17

    申请号:US13608799

    申请日:2012-09-10

    摘要: In one embodiment, edge devices can be configured to be coupled to a multi-stage switch fabric and peripheral processing devices. The edge devices and the multi-stage switch fabric can collectively define a single logical entity. A first edge device from the edge devices can be configured to be coupled to a first peripheral processing device from the peripheral processing devices. The second edge device from the edge devices can be configured to be coupled to a second peripheral processing device from the peripheral processing devices. The first edge device can be configured such that virtual resources including a first virtual resource can be defined at the first peripheral processing device. A network management module coupled to the edge devices and configured to provision the virtual resources such that the first virtual resource can be migrated from the first peripheral processing device to the second peripheral processing device.

    摘要翻译: 在一个实施例中,边缘设备可被配置为耦合到多级交换结构和外围处理设备。 边缘设备和多级交换结构可以共同定义单个逻辑实体。 来自边缘设备的第一边缘设备可以被配置为从外围处理设备耦合到第一外围处理设备。 来自边缘设备的第二边缘设备可以被配置为从外围处理设备耦合到第二外围处理设备。 第一边缘设备可以被配置为使得可以在第一外围处理设备处定义包括第一虚拟资源的虚拟资源。 网络管理模块,其耦合到所述边缘设备并且被配置为提供所述虚拟资源,使得所述第一虚拟资源可以从所述第一外围处理设备迁移到所述第二外围处理设备。

    Methods and apparatus related to a modular switch architecture
    38.
    发明授权
    Methods and apparatus related to a modular switch architecture 有权
    与模块化交换架构相关的方法和设备

    公开(公告)号:US08804711B2

    公开(公告)日:2014-08-12

    申请号:US12345502

    申请日:2008-12-29

    IPC分类号: H04L12/58 H04L12/56

    CPC分类号: H04L49/15 H04L49/10 H04L49/45

    摘要: In some embodiments, an apparatus includes a first housing, a second housing and at least one cable. The first housing includes a first interface card of a switch fabric. The second housing includes a second interface card of the switch fabric and a third interface card of the switch fabric. The second interface card of the switch fabric is operatively and physically coupled to the third interface card of the switch fabric via a midplane. The second interface card defines a plane that is nonparallel to the a plane defined by the third interface card and a plane defined by the midplane. The plane defined by the third interface card is nonparallel to the plane defined by the second interface card and the plane defined by the midplane. The cable is configured to operatively couple the first interface card to the second interface card.

    摘要翻译: 在一些实施例中,装置包括第一壳体,第二壳体和至少一个电缆。 第一壳体包括交换结构的第一接口卡。 第二壳体包括交换结构的第二接口卡和交换结构的第三接口卡。 交换结构的第二接口卡经由中间平面操作和物理地耦合到交换结构的第三接口卡。 第二接口卡限定了与第三接口卡所定义的平面不平行的平面和由中平面限定的平面。 由第三接口卡定义的平面与由第二接口卡定义的平面和由中平面限定的平面不平行。 电缆被配置为将第一接口卡可操作地耦合到第二接口卡。

    Methods and apparatus related to flow control within a data center switch fabric
    39.
    发明授权
    Methods and apparatus related to flow control within a data center switch fabric 失效
    与数据中心交换机结构中的流量控制有关的方法和设备

    公开(公告)号:US08755396B2

    公开(公告)日:2014-06-17

    申请号:US12495361

    申请日:2009-06-30

    IPC分类号: H04L12/28

    摘要: In one embodiment, an apparatus includes a switch core that has a multi-stage switch fabric physically distributed among a set of chassis. The multi-stage switch fabric has a set of input buffers and a set of output ports. The switch core can be configured to be coupled to a set of edge devices. The apparatus can also include a controller implemented in hardware without software during operation and with software during configuration and monitoring. The controller can be coupled to the set of input buffers and the set of output ports. The controller can be configured to send a flow control signal to an input buffer from the set of input buffers when congestion at an output port from the set of output ports is predicted and before congestion in the switch core occurs.

    摘要翻译: 在一个实施例中,装置包括交换机核心,其具有物理上分布在一组机箱中的多级交换机结构。 多级交换结构具有一组输入缓冲器和一组输出端口。 交换机核心可以被配置为耦合到一组边缘设备。 该装置还可以包括在操作期间以软件实现的控制器,并且在配置和监视期间具有软件。 控制器可以耦合到一组输入缓冲器和一组输出端口。 控制器可以被配置为在预测来自该组输出端口的输出端口处的拥塞并且在交换机核心发生拥塞之前从该组输入缓冲器向输入缓冲器发送流控制信号。

    Scalable security services for multicast in a router having integrated zone-based firewall
    40.
    发明授权
    Scalable security services for multicast in a router having integrated zone-based firewall 有权
    具有集成区域防火墙的路由器中可多播的可扩展安全服务

    公开(公告)号:US08713627B2

    公开(公告)日:2014-04-29

    申请号:US12432366

    申请日:2009-04-29

    IPC分类号: H04L29/06

    摘要: A multicast-capable firewall allows firewall security policies to be applied to multicast traffic. The multicast-capable firewall may be integrated within a routing device, thus allowing a single device to provide both routing functionality, including multicast support, as well as firewall services. The routing device provides a user interface by which a user specifies one or more zones to be recognized by the integrated firewall when applying stateful firewall services to multicast packets. The user interface supports a syntax that allows the user to define subsets of the plurality of interfaces associated with the zones, and define a single multicast policy to be applied to multicast sessions associated with a multicast group. The multicast policy identifies common services to be applied pre-replication, and exceptions specifying additional services to be applied post-replication to copies of the multicast packets for the one or more zones.

    摘要翻译: 具有组播功能的防火墙允许将防火墙安全策略应用于组播流量。 可组播的防火墙可以集成在路由设备内,从而允许单个设备提供包括组播支持在内的路由功能以及防火墙服务。 路由设备提供一个用户界面,用户通过该用户界面指定一个或多个区域,以便在向组播数据包应用状态防火墙服务时由集成防火墙识别。 用户界面支持语法,允许用户定义与区域相关联的多个接口的子集,并且定义要应用于与多播组相关联的多播会话的单个组播策略。 多播策略标识要应用预复制的常用服务,以及将要复制后应用的其他服务指定给一个或多个区域的多播数据包副本的异常。