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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Aug. 31, 2010
Filed:
Jan. 21, 2005
Applicants:
Charles T. Yager, Cupertino, CA (US);
James W. Edwards, Iii, Austin, TX (US);
Craig A. Zimmerman, Austin, TX (US);
Gurinderjit Chahal, Fremont, CA (US);
Inventors:
Charles T. Yager, Cupertino, CA (US);
James W. Edwards, III, Austin, TX (US);
Craig A. Zimmerman, Austin, TX (US);
Gurinderjit Chahal, Fremont, CA (US);
Assignee:
Cisco Technology, Inc., San Jose, CA (US);
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Assistant Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
G01R 31/08 (2006.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
Abstract
A fault-tolerant stack of low cost switches each having only two dual-purpose uplinks is enabled by utilizing a specified topology for connecting the uplinks and implementing a recovery algorithm on each switch.