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The patent badge is an abbreviated version of the USPTO patent document. The patent badge covers the following: Patent number, Date patent was issued, Date patent was filed, Title of the patent, Applicant, Inventor, Assignee, Attorney firm, Primary examiner, Assistant examiner, CPCs, and Abstract. The patent badge does contain a link to the full patent document (in Adobe Acrobat format, aka pdf). To download or print any patent click here.

Date of Patent:
Oct. 15, 2024

Filed:

Dec. 14, 2021
Applicant:

Cisco Technology, Inc., San Jose, CA (US);

Inventors:

Smita Nath, San Jose, CA (US);

Siva Vaddepuri, San Jose, CA (US);

Abhijit Vijay Warkhedi, Milpitas, CA (US);

Shyam Kapadia, San Jose, CA (US);

Sundeep Kumar Singh, Fremont, CA (US);

Assignee:

Cisco Technology, Inc., San Jose, CA (US);

Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
H04L 12/46 (2006.01); G06F 15/173 (2006.01); H04L 41/04 (2022.01); H04L 41/046 (2022.01); H04L 45/00 (2022.01); H04L 45/741 (2022.01); H04L 61/103 (2022.01); H04L 61/5038 (2022.01); H04L 12/44 (2006.01); H04L 41/0806 (2022.01); H04L 41/34 (2022.01); H04L 67/567 (2022.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
H04L 12/4633 (2013.01); G06F 15/17312 (2013.01); H04L 12/4641 (2013.01); H04L 41/04 (2013.01); H04L 41/046 (2013.01); H04L 45/26 (2013.01); H04L 45/66 (2013.01); H04L 45/72 (2013.01); H04L 45/741 (2013.01); H04L 61/103 (2013.01); H04L 61/5038 (2022.05); G06F 15/17343 (2013.01); H04L 12/44 (2013.01); H04L 41/048 (2013.01); H04L 41/0806 (2013.01); H04L 41/34 (2022.05); H04L 67/567 (2022.05);
Abstract

Techniques for combining the functionality of fabric interconnects and switches (e.g., Top-of-Rack (ToR) switches) into one network entity, thereby reducing the number of devices in a fabric and complexity of communications in the fabric. By collapsing FI and ToR switch functionality into one network entity, server traffic may be directly forwarded by the ToR switch and an entire tier is now eliminated from the topology hierarchy which may improve the control, data, and management plane. Further, this disclosure describes techniques for dynamically managing the number of gateway proxies running on one or more computer clusters based on a number of managed switch domains.


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