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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Aug. 09, 2022
Filed:
Jan. 21, 2021
Fungible, Inc., Santa Clara, CA (US);
Deepak Goel, San Jose, CA (US);
Narendra Jayawant Gathoo, San Jose, CA (US);
Philip A. Thomas, San Jose, CA (US);
Srihari Raju Vegesna, San Jose, CA (US);
Pradeep Sindhu, Los Altos Hills, CA (US);
Wael Noureddine, Santa Clara, CA (US);
Robert William Bowdidge, San Jose, CA (US);
Ayaskant Pani, Fremont, CA (US);
Gopesh Goyal, Cupertino, CA (US);
FUNGIBLE, INC., Santa Clara, CA (US);
Abstract
Network access node virtual fabrics configured dynamically over an underlay network are described. A centralized controller, such as a software-defined networking (SDN) controller, of a packet switched network is configured to establish one or more virtual fabrics as overlay networks on top of the physical underlay network of the packet switched network. For example, the SDN controller may define multiple sets of two of more access nodes connected to the packet switched network, and the access nodes of a given one of the sets may use a new data transmission protocol, referred to generally herein as a fabric control protocol (FCP), to dynamically setup tunnels as a virtual fabric over the packet switched network. The FCP tunnels may include all or a subset of the parallel data paths through the packet switched network between the access nodes for a given virtual fabric.