公开(公告)号：US20140201346A1

公开(公告)日：2014-07-17

申请号：US13741982

申请日：2013-01-15

Applicant: INTERNATIONAL BUSINESS MACHINES CORP

Inventor： SUSHMA ANANTHARAM ,  DAYAVANTI G. KAMATH ,  KESHAV G. KAMBLE ,  VIJOY A. PANDEY

IPC: H04L12/24

CPC classification number: H04L49/70 ,  H04L41/0893 ,  H04L47/20

Abstract: Management and provisioning of networking traffic may be provided by bundling virtual channels into a group. A global policy may be applied to the bundle so that virtual ports providing services to a client may be managed by referring to the global policy of the bundle. The channels comprising the bundle may span multiple physical ports and in some cases, multiple physical switches. Thus, policy management may be avoided at the port level and instead, be handled as groups of channels implementing a client service.