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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Oct. 18, 2005
Filed:
Jan. 28, 2002
Krishna Sundaresan, Sunnyvale, CA (US);
Chandrasekar Krishnamurthy, Sunnyvale, CA (US);
Mahesh Chellappa, San Jose, CA (US);
Krishna Sundaresan, Sunnyvale, CA (US);
Chandrasekar Krishnamurthy, Sunnyvale, CA (US);
Mahesh Chellappa, San Jose, CA (US);
Cisco Systems, Inc., San Jose, CA (US);
Abstract
A system and method are disclosed for dividing a network into clock partitions to limit the overhead created by transmitting clock sources. A clock partition can be implemented through several methods. A first method turns off the clock topology exchange on ports connected to the nodes outside the partition. A second method appends a four-byte partition identifier to network clock distribution protocol (NCDP) messages. A third method uses private network-network interface (PNNI) peer group identification to determine the clock partition group.