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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Dec. 23, 2003
Filed:
May. 20, 1999
Alain Blanc, Tourrettes sur Loup, FR;
Sylvie Gohl, La Colle sur Loup, FR;
Alain Pinzaglia, St. Laurent du Var, FR;
Menahem Kaplan, Petah-Tikva, IL;
International Business Machines Corporation, Armonk, NY (US);
Abstract
A Switch Fabric system comprising at least one Switch Fabric subsystem ( ) further including a set of Switch cores elements ( ) that are mounted in a port expansion permitting attachment of at least a first and second sets of Protocol Adapters ( ) under a routing control process. A Primary Switch controller (PSC) has a complete knowledge of the topology of the switch, e.g., the number of subsystems, the nature of the port expansion etc., while each Secondary Switch Controller only has a limited knowledge of that topology. One particular Switch Core ( ) which has a full-duplex communication capability in each Subsystem is assigned the key function to interface communication between the PSC and the other SSC in a same Switch Fabric Subsystem.
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