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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Sep. 22, 2026
Filed:
Oct. 20, 2023
Juniper Networks, Inc., Sunnyvale, CA (US);
Michal Styszynski, Antony, FR;
Mahesh Kumar Subramaniam, Fremont, CA (US);
Hewlett Packard Enterprise Development LP, Spring, TX (US);
Abstract
Techniques are disclosed for implementing logical Top-of-Rack (TOR) switches. In one example, a network device includes a plurality of interfaces. The interfaces may include physical and logical interfaces. The network device executes a plurality of network Operating System (OS) instances. In some examples, the network device executes each network OS instance within a corresponding Kubernetes pod. The network device allocates a different subset of the plurality of interfaces to each network OS instance. In some examples, the network device assigns a logical identifier, such as a color, to each subset of interfaces and corresponding network OS instance. Each network OS instance manages the forwarding of network traffic received via the respective subset of the plurality of interfaces allocated to the network OS instance.