Brocade Communications Systems, Inc.

Daotang Yang

Richard L Hammons

Raymond C Tsai

Sundar Poudyal

Lalit D Pathak

Xiaocheng “Cora” Chen

Disclosed herein are various aspects of a Fibre Channel (Fibre Channel) fabric having switches that employ Registered State Change Notifications (RSCNs) with enhanced payloads. Two types of RSCN message formats are provided, both including status information about the affected device(s). In one embodiment, a RSCN message format for inter-switch communication provides various information about the affected devices according to one of a plurality of predetermined formats. In another embodiment, a node device RSCN message format provides information about a port state, the identification of the affected port, along with the port and node world wide names and the FC-4 types supported by the node.

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Sunnyvale, CA, United States of America

Daotang Yang