Huawei Technologies Co., Limited

Konstantinos Pentikousis

Wei Zhou

Wei Wei

Qing Zhou

Mirko Schramm

Pengcheng Tang

Frank Schramm

A network storage method, a switch device, and a controller are provided. The method is applicable to a controller based on OpenFlow protocol. The method includes: determining, by the controller, that a first switching equipment is to cache data requested by a first data packet; and notifying, by the controller, the first switching equipment to cache the data requested by the first data packet, and notifying the first switching equipment to establish a first flow table entry according to issued match information corresponding to the first data packet and issued action instruction information corresponding to the first data packet, wherein the action instruction information corresponding to the first data packet is adapted to instruct the first switching equipment to forward the data cached in the first switching equipment and requested by the first data packet.

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Berlin, Germany

Konstantinos Pentikousis