Marvell Israel (misl) Ltd.

Marvell International Limited

Marvellworld Trade Ltd.

Ronen Tausi

Gad Hutt

Carmi Arad

David Melman

Rami Zemach

Robi Goldschlager

Dor Joseph Kampeas

Michael Orr

Vitaly Vovnoboy

Adi Sapir

Victor Ryabchin

A source switching device in a switching system receives information measured by a target switching device in the switching system. The information is indicative of an amount of data received in a given amount of time by the target switching device via each of two or more first links coupled to the target switching device. The source switching device determines, based at least in part on the information received from the target device, a path, from among multiple paths from the source switching device to the target switching device, for transmission of a packet flow directed to the target switching device. The source switching device transmits, via the determined path for transmission of the packet flow to the target device, one or more packets belonging to the packet flow.

Distributed dynamic load balancing in network systems

Aspects of the disclosure provide a method for highlighting a port of a network device in a network. The method includes receiving, by a processor, a selection of graphical element displayed at a graphical user interface. The network device is separate from the processor. The graphical element corresponds to a port of a network device in a network. The method further includes identifying, by the processor, the port and the network device at which the port is disposed, and transmitting an instruction to the network device to cause a specific signaling component associated with the port to have a different state from other signaling components associated with other ports of the network device in order to highlight the port at the network device to a user.

Cable discovery with visual display of a network topology

The present disclosure describes techniques for hardware acceleration for routing programs. In some aspects communications between a routing determination program and a packet router are monitored in a router, both the routing determination program and the packet router being part of a software layer of the router. The communications include the routing determination program providing configuration data to the packet router. Based on the monitored communications, a packet processor is changed to reflect the configuration data, the packet processor being part of a hardware layer of the router. The packet processor performs packet routing operations of receiving packets, determining the next routers in the paths to the target destinations of the packets, and sending the packets to the next routers independent of the software layer.

Hardware acceleration for routing programs

Aspects of the disclosure provide a method for generating a Layer 2 path indication by a processor. The method includes receiving, by the processor, a request for providing a Layer 2 path indication between a first host and a second host in a network. Nodes in the network are configured to form a plurality of sub-networks to enable data transfer from one host to another host within a sub-network via a Layer 2 path formed of a sequence of intermediate nodes in the same sub-network. The method further includes identifying, by the processor, a sub-network within the network to which the first host and the second host belong, and determining, by the processor, within the sub-network a sequence of intermediate nodes on a path for Layer 2 data transfer between the first host and the second host.

Method and apparatus for path indication

A method for providing Layer 2 link attributes to a user includes transmitting a query using a Layer 3 network protocol to at least a first network element to determine a link attribute for a Layer 2 link between the first network element and a second network element in a network, receiving a response indicative of the link attribute for the Layer 2 link, determining based on the received response a graphical line attribute corresponding to the link attribute according to a predetermined mapping of link attributes to graphical line attributes, and updating a line element at a graphical user interface according to the graphical line attribute, the line element connecting at the graphical user interface a first graphical element corresponding to the first network element and a second graphical element corresponding to the second network element.

Link attributes display

System and methods are provided for performing deep packet inspection of data packets. An example system includes a packet forwarding component and a virtual machine component. The packet forwarding component is configured to receive data packets for transmission and to select one or more of the data packets based at least in part on a first set of rules for deep packet inspection. The virtual machine component is configured to perform deep packet inspection on the selected data packets according to a second set of rules to determine whether the selected data packets are allowed for transmission. The packet forwarding component is further configured to transmit the selected data packets when the selected data packets are allowed for transmission after the deep packet inspection.

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Raanana, Israel

Ronen Tausi