Hewlett Packard Enterprise Development LP

Maxxan Systems, Incorporated

Mike Witkowski

John W Butler

Robert Teisberg

Guodong Zhang

Paul Vu

Sompong Paul Olarig

Hawkins Yao

Lih-Sheng Chiou

Cheh-Suei Yang

One embodiment describes a network system. The system includes a primary enclosure including a network switch system that includes a plurality of physical interface ports. A first one of the plurality of physical interface ports is to communicatively couple to a network. The system further includes a sub-enclosure comprising a network interface card (NIC) to which a computer system is communicatively coupled and a downlink extension module (DEM) that is communicatively coupled with the NIC and a second one of the plurality of physical interface ports of the network switch system to provide network connectivity of the computer system to the network via the network switch system.

Switch network architecture

A cache system and method in accordance with the invention includes a cache near the target devices and another cache at the requesting host side so that the data traffic across the computer network is reduced. A cache updating and invalidation method are described.

Caching system and method for a network storage system

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Tomball, TX, United States of America

Mike Witkowski