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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Aug. 19, 2008
Filed:
Feb. 05, 2004
David Delano Ward, Somerset, WI (US);
George Suwala, San Jose, CA (US);
Natarajan Shankar, Fremont, CA (US);
John Galen Scudder, Ann Arbor, MI (US);
Andrew Lunstad, Shoreview, MN (US);
David Delano Ward, Somerset, WI (US);
George Suwala, San Jose, CA (US);
Natarajan Shankar, Fremont, CA (US);
John Galen Scudder, Ann Arbor, MI (US);
Andrew Lunstad, Shoreview, MN (US);
Cisco Technology, Inc., San Jose, CA (US);
Abstract
Systems and methods include providing a router that may be deployed as multiple logical routers that share a common fast interconnect. These logical routers may functionally serve as core routers, peering routers, aggregation routers, etc. A further aspect of the system and methods is that the resources assigned to a logical router are allocated from a pool potentially including multitude of hardware cards. A further aspect of the system and methods is that a logical router may be independently managed by the owner of the router or by an owner of the logical router.