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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Jul. 06, 2021
Filed:
Sep. 26, 2019
Applicant:
Facebook, Inc., Menlo Park, CA (US);
Inventors:
Che Kin Leung, Fremont, CA (US);
Xu Wang, Fremont, CA (US);
Zhiping Yao, Santa Clara, CA (US);
Hans-Juergen Schmidtke, Mountain View, CA (US);
Lingjun Wu, San Jose, CA (US);
Assignee:
Facebook, Inc., Menlo Park, CA (US);
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
H04B 10/07 (2013.01); H04L 12/933 (2013.01); H04L 12/937 (2013.01); G06F 13/40 (2006.01); G06F 13/42 (2006.01); G06F 1/20 (2006.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
H04L 49/15 (2013.01); G06F 13/4022 (2013.01); G06F 13/4081 (2013.01); G06F 13/426 (2013.01); G06F 13/4278 (2013.01); H04L 49/253 (2013.01); G06F 1/20 (2013.01); G06F 2213/0008 (2013.01); G06F 2213/4004 (2013.01); H04L 49/1515 (2013.01);
Abstract
Disclosed embodiments include a network switch having a first group of switch elements and a second group of switch elements. The second group of switch elements is cross-connected to the first group of switch elements to passively route network traffic through the network switch in accordance with a predefined configuration.