Nortel Networks Corporation

Bernard Farrell

Daniel Boudreau

John J O'Hara

Richard J Kennelly

James A Philippou

Robert Cole

J Martin Borden

Kerry M Hannigan

Peter E Donahue

Shawn Mamros

The present invention is a method and apparatus to balance load in a cluster of switches in a network. The switches include a local switch and one or more remote switches. Messages containing load information of the switches are exchanged among the switches. One of the switches is selected to respond to a connection request to the local switch based on a metric.

Network switch load balancing

A network device using a method for presenting a set of network-based administrative management objects based on attributes associated with a user. The method includes determining attributes of the user, storing a base management object, providing an organization specific management object, and displaying a graphic user interface. The organization management object defines the graphic user interface and interfaces a user to a computer system. The base management object provides the organization specific management object based on the attributes of the user.

Custom administrator views of management objects

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Littleton, MA, United States of America

Bernard Farrell