Oracle International Corporation

Arista Networks, Inc.

Zhong Xu

Michael John Skarpelos

William Alan Wright

Naveen Zalpuri

Parthiban Thilagar

Shu Ling

Patrick H Fry

Wei Lin

Arvind Srinivasan

Hugh Weber Holbrook

Adam James Sweeney

Michael Chih-Yen Wang

Basant Kukreja

Adam Leftik

Hideaki Hayashi

A method and apparatus of a network element that installs a control plane data rule from system memory to specialized hardware memory in a network element is described. In an exemplary embodiment, the network element receives control plane data processing statistics of control plane data that is received by the network element, where the control plane data is policed using a plurality of control plane data policing rules stored in the system memory. The network element further determines that a candidate policing rule is being utilized greater than a threshold based on at least the control plane data processing statistics, where the candidate policing rule is one of the plurality of control plane data policing rules stored in the system memory. The network element additionally installs the candidate policing rule in the specialized hardware memory, where the candidate policing rule is subsequently used by the network element to police the control plane data.

System and method of dynamic hardware policer allocation

Systems, methods, and other embodiments associated with content invalidation are described. One example method includes parsing a response to identify an invalidation directive. Then if identified, invalidating cached content from a cache memory that corresponds to the content identified by an invalidation directive.

Response header invalidation

Described herein are systems and methods for use with a load balancer or traffic director, and administration thereof. In accordance with an embodiment the system comprises a traffic director having one or more traffic director instances, which is configured to receive and communicate requests, from clients, to origin servers having one or more pools of servers. A traffic monitor, at the traffic director, monitors traffic, including the number of connections, between the traffic director instances and one or more of the resource servers within the origin servers. The traffic director can set a traffic rate which controls the traffic, including the number of connections, to provide surge protection, or rate acceleration/deceleration.

System and method for surge protection and rate acceleration in a traffic director environment

Systems, methods, and other embodiments associated with content invalidation are described. One example method includes providing an invalidation directive in a header of a response.

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Zhong Xu