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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Sep. 05, 2023
Filed:
Jan. 17, 2019
Ciena Corporation, Hanover, MD (US);
Michael Y. Frankel, Bethesda, MD (US);
John P. Mateosky, West River, MD (US);
Vladimir Pelekhaty, Baltimore, MD (US);
Ciena Corporation, Hanover, MD (US);
Abstract
A data center fabric includes a plurality of Field Programmable Gate Arrays (FPGAs), each FPGA interconnected by a plurality of links with other FPGAs, a plurality of servers in a data center, and physical network functions associated with the data center, wherein the plurality of FPGAs form a virtual fabric for switching between the FPGAs, the plurality of servers, and the physical network functions, and wherein the virtual fabric is arranged in a compound graph and a flat network with each FPGA being a node and a diameter of the compound graph and the flat network is indicative of a maximum number of hops for a packet through the virtual fabric.