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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
May. 11, 2010
Filed:
Oct. 17, 2005
Alejandro Emilio Vásquez, Raleigh, NC (US);
Andrey L. Tsigler, Hillsborough, NC (US);
Hassan Elmosallamy Ibrahim Hassan, Apex, NC (US);
Katherine Marie Mcdowell, Raleigh, NC (US);
Alejandro Emilio Vásquez, Raleigh, NC (US);
Andrey L. Tsigler, Hillsborough, NC (US);
Hassan Elmosallamy Ibrahim Hassan, Apex, NC (US);
Katherine Marie McDowell, Raleigh, NC (US);
Broadcom Corporation, Irvine, CA (US);
Abstract
Embodiments of this invention comprise a modular, scalable architecture for building a variety of Layer 2/3/4+ Ethernet products and devices. Such devices comprise of a set modules. The invention provides a set of rules to handle such modules. The rules are controlled by the architectural component named card manager. The card manager uses a protocol to discover the modules that are entering or leaving the system/device. The protocol's data provides a unique way of identifying the modules that belong to the system.