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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Jul. 06, 2010
Filed:
Oct. 05, 2004
Badrinarayanan Ramaswamy, Saratoga, CA (US);
Joy Chatterjee, Kundalahalli, IN;
Rituparna Agrawal, Chandra Reddy Layout, IN;
Subrata Banerjee, Los Altos, CA (US);
Sudheer Yelanduru Raghavendra, Jayanagar, IN;
Thomas Edsall, Cupertino, CA (US);
Badrinarayanan Ramaswamy, Saratoga, CA (US);
Joy Chatterjee, Kundalahalli, IN;
Rituparna Agrawal, Chandra Reddy Layout, IN;
Subrata Banerjee, Los Altos, CA (US);
Sudheer Yelanduru Raghavendra, Jayanagar, IN;
Thomas Edsall, Cupertino, CA (US);
Cisco Technology, Inc., San Jose, CA (US);
Abstract
According to the present invention, methods and apparatus are provided to allow for distribution of fiber channel messages. Messages associated with a variety of applications can be distributed within a single logical fabric to physical connected but logically disconnected fabrics. Interconnecting switches forward messages to neighboring fabrics and aggregate responses before replying to a first fabric.