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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Mar. 26, 2019
Filed:
May. 23, 2017
Dell Products L.p., Round Rock, TX (US);
Ajan Daniel Kutty, Austin, TX (US);
Marcelo Benetti DeSouza, Austin, TX (US);
Dell Products L.P., Round Rock, TX (US);
Abstract
A communications-capability-based SDN control system includes an SDN controller device coupled to first and second communication capability SDN switch devices. The SDN controller device sends the first communication capability SDN switch device a first SDN protocol communication including a first feature request message, and receives back a second SDN protocol communication including a first feature response message having first communications capability information about the first communication capability SDN switch device. The SDN controller device then determines a first communication capability of the first communication capability SDN switch device using the first communication capability information. The SDN controller device then performs, based on the first communication capability, first communication capability action(s) to cause a control result in the first communication capability SDN switch device that may also be caused in the second communication capability SDN switch device without performing the at least one first communication capability action.