International Business Machines Corporation

Gal Sagie

Eran Gampel

An optical port routing enclosure and programmable NIC card as well as cluster topologies leveraging same are provided.

Networking hardware and software and data center topologies leveraging same

A system for processing packets in a network is provided. The system includes a computing platform running a software framework configured for accessing packets flowing into a packet processing pipeline of a node in the network; and identifying at least one pattern in said packets. Based on this pattern, the systems routes a first portion of the packets into the packet processing pipeline and offloads a second portion of the packets to the computing platform to be processed by the software framework.

Workload distribution in a data network

A packet forwarding device and a system using same are provided. The packet forwarding device includes a datapath forwarding hardware unit for processing a first set of packets matching a first set of rules of a rules table. The packet forwarding device further includes a datapath forwarding software unit for generating or modifying the rules table and for processing a second set of packets matching a second set of rules of the rules table and applying a service to the second set of packets.

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Hod-Hasharon, Israel

Gal Sagie