Cisco Technology, Inc.

Siva M Vaddepuri

Elango Ganesan

Lawrence Rolfe Kreeger

Brian Yoshiaki Uchino

Joe Joseph Karimundackal

Michael Freed

Rituraj Kirti

Shubhashree Venkatesh

Laurent Plumelle

Shyam N Kapadia

Abhijit V Warkhedi

Sundeep Kumar Singh

Arvind Prabhudev

Smita Nath

Abhijit Vijay Warkhedi

Techniques for combining the functionality of fabric interconnects and switches (e.g., Top-of-Rack (ToR) switches) into one network entity, thereby reducing the number of devices in a fabric and complexity of communications in the fabric. By collapsing FI and ToR switch functionality into one network entity, server traffic may be directly forwarded by the ToR switch and an entire tier is now eliminated from the topology hierarchy which may improve the control, data, and management plane. Further, this disclosure describes techniques for dynamically managing the number of gateway proxies running on one or more computer clusters based on a number of managed switch domains.

Managing traffic for endpoints in data center environments to provide cloud management connectivity

In one embodiment, the system may identify a virtual network, the virtual network including a plurality of virtual entities and connections among the plurality of virtual entities. The system may automatically map each of the plurality of virtual entities to one or more resources or resource pools such that the virtual network is mapped to a physical network, wherein mapping includes allocating one or more resources or resource pools to a corresponding one of the plurality of virtual entities.

Physical resource life-cycle in a template based orchestration of end-to-end service provisioning

In one embodiment, an apparatus obtains a switch port identifier mapping for each of the plurality of ports of a network device, wherein the switch port identifier mapping indicates a port identifier of one of the plurality of ports of the network device and a switch port identifier of a switch port to which the one of the plurality of ports is connected. The apparatus obtains a set of switch information for each of a plurality of switches, the set of switch information including a set of switch port identifiers associated with the corresponding one of the plurality of switches. The apparatus ascertains for each one of the plurality of ports, a corresponding one of the plurality of switches and a port of the one of the plurality of switches to which the one of the plurality of ports is connected.

Automated discovery/rediscovery of server to network connectivity

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Siva M Vaddepuri