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Force10 Networks, Inc.

Dell Products Inc.

Sanjeev Agrawal

Balaji Rajagopalan

Mukesh Moopath Velayudhan

Janardhanan P Narasimhan

Joyas Joseph

Ramkumar Krishnamoorthy

Purushothaman Nandakumaran

Narasimhan Ganapathiraman

Sapna Kothari

Nirupa Venkatapathy

A system and method for link failure handling includes detecting a failure in a first network connection between a first network switching unit and a second network switching unit, where the first network connection is associated with a first communication port of the first network switching unit; suspending the first communication port from a link aggregation group (LAG), where the first communication port is associated with the LAG; and associating one or more first inter-chassis link (ICL) ports with the LAG. The first ICL ports are associated with a first ICL coupling the first network switching unit to a third network switching unit. The first network switching unit and the third network switching unit are peers.

System and method for rapid link failure handling

A virtual chassis includes two or more physical chassis and operates as a single, logical device. Each of the two or more physical chassis include two route processor modules (RPM) and each RPM is assigned a first and a second role within the virtual chassis. The first role is a physical chassis level role and the second role is a virtual chassis level role. The RPMs operate in coordination such that the failure of any one of the RPMs results in one or more other RPMs taking over the first and second roles of the failed RPM.

Highly available virtual packet network device

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San Jose, CA, United States of America

Sanjeev Agrawal