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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Dec. 05, 2006
Filed:
Mar. 31, 2003
Sriram Natarajan, Sunnyvale, CA (US);
Sharat Prasad, San Jose, CA (US);
Yu Deng, Milpitas, CA (US);
Yanfeng Wang, Fremont, CA (US);
Sriram Natarajan, Sunnyvale, CA (US);
Sharat Prasad, San Jose, CA (US);
Yu Deng, Milpitas, CA (US);
Yanfeng Wang, Fremont, CA (US);
Cisco Technology, Inc., San Jose, CA (US);
Abstract
The Fibre-Channel flow control mechanism is augmented to facilitate efficient data exchange between Fibre-Channel ports over extended distances. A supplemental buffer mechanism may be maintained as part of an interface to a transport network used to carry Fibre-Channel traffic. The transport network interface makes a remote Fibre-Channel port aware of the augmented local receiver buffer capacity by intercepting certain frames used in link establishment and substituting an enhanced buffer capacity for the local Fibre-Channel port's internal buffer capacity. This technique provides improved throughput and readily accommodates large distances and large frame sizes.