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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Dec. 02, 2008
Filed:
Aug. 20, 2004
Kalyan Ghosh, Santa Clara, CA (US);
Praveen Jain, San Jose, CA (US);
Shankar Subramanian, San Jose, CA (US);
Rajesh Bhandari, San Jose, CA (US);
Prabesh Babu Nanjundaiah, Cupertino, CA (US);
Kalyan Ghosh, Santa Clara, CA (US);
Praveen Jain, San Jose, CA (US);
Shankar Subramanian, San Jose, CA (US);
Rajesh Bhandari, San Jose, CA (US);
Prabesh Babu Nanjundaiah, Cupertino, CA (US);
Cisco Technology, Inc., San Jose, CA (US);
Abstract
According to the present invention, methods and apparatus are provided to allow efficient and effective aggregation of ports into port channels in a fiber channel network. A local fiber channel switch can automatically identify compatible ports and initiate exchange sequences with a remote fiber channel switch to aggregate ports into port channels. Ports can be aggregated synchronously to allow consistent generation of port channel map tables.