Hitachi, Ltd.

Alaxala Networks Corporation

Tomoyuki Oku

Takeki Yazaki

Shinichi Akahane

Minoru Hidaka

Masaki Yamada

Yuichi Ishikawa

Masayuki Takase

Takashi Isobe

Michitaka Okuno

Mitsuru Nagasaka

To prevent the switching time influences power saving efficiency and packet loss prevention performance, it is provided a network apparatus for transferring packets, including a transfer part for transferring received packets to a given destination, and a determining part for obtaining traffic volume of the packets to be transferred. The determining part determines periodicity of changes to the traffic volume, predicts traffic volume after a predetermined period of time with use of the determined periodicity, and controls transfer performance of the transfer part based on a result of the traffic volume prediction.

Network apparatus, performance control method, and network system

An edge router measures a traffic volume inputted into a network, and the measurement result is notified to a network management server. If the network management server judges that the notified traffic volume is 'smaller' than a capacity of a second core router, it will direct a first core router to shift to a power saving mode. The first core router notifies the edge router of the shift to the power saving mode, and the edge router updates a routing table so that the packet to the first core router may be bypassed to the second core router. The first core router shifts to the power saving mode that does not perform packet transfer, and reduction in electric power is realized.

Packet transfer method, packet transfer device, and packet transfer system

To control a bandwidth without the need for a large-capacity buffer. This invention provides a packet transfer apparatus connected to first device and second device, with a network therebetween, including: an input unit that receives a packet from the first device; a packet storage unit that stores the packet; a packet processing unit that stores the packet in the packet storage unit; a packet checking unit that checks whether the packet is related to data request; a packet analyzing unit that analyzes the amount of data requested by the data request; a transfer control unit that controls transfer of the packet on the basis of the analyzed amount of data; and an output unit that sends the received packet to the second device.

Packet transfer apparatus for storage system

A master node transmits a probe packet for checking a condition of a network in a ring in both directions thereof to detect the occurrence of a fault on the ring. A slave node increments a hop count included in the received probe packet, transmits it to an adjacent node configuring the ring, and transmits a hop count report packet to the master node. The master node detects a fault on the ring based upon a fact that the master node does not receive the probe packet transmitted by itself. Further, the master node detects the occurrence of multiple faults and the recovery of at least one of the multiple faults based upon the sum of maximum values of hop counts in the hop count report packets received from both directions of the ring and transmits a packet for prompting the update of the database for packet transfer.

Ring network and master node

A high quality network is provided that eliminates the sorting time for sorting through registering look-up conditions, such as source and destination MAC addresses, in a content addressable memory, by generating a routing or flow control look-up key, and then selectively activating some of the physical banks in the content addressable memory with the look-up key during look-up for the look-up conditions. The look-up key is generated by extracting a part or all of the data contained in a packet header.

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Kokubunji, Japan

Tomoyuki Oku