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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Jul. 05, 2011
Filed:
Aug. 21, 2008
Matthew D. Bomhoff, Tucson, AZ (US);
Brian J. Cagno, Tucson, AZ (US);
John C. Elliott, Tucson, AZ (US);
Carl E. Jones, Tucson, AZ (US);
Robert A. Kubo, Tucson, AZ (US);
Gregg S. Lucas, Tucson, AZ (US);
Katherine S. Tyldesley, Tucson, AZ (US);
Matthew D. Bomhoff, Tucson, AZ (US);
Brian J. Cagno, Tucson, AZ (US);
John C. Elliott, Tucson, AZ (US);
Carl E. Jones, Tucson, AZ (US);
Robert A. Kubo, Tucson, AZ (US);
Gregg S. Lucas, Tucson, AZ (US);
Katherine S. Tyldesley, Tucson, AZ (US);
International Business Machines Corporation, Armonk, NY (US);
Abstract
A method is disclosed to set the speed of a network. The method supplies a network interconnected with a system controller and a plurality of switch domains, where each of those plurality of switch domains comprises one or more information storage devices and a switch domain controller, and sets by each of the plurality of switch domains a signaling rate for that switch domain. The method queries in-band by the system controller each of the plurality of switch domains for that switch domain's signaling rate, and provides in-band by each of the plurality of switch domains the signaling rate for that switch domain. The method provides in-band by the system controller to each of the plurality of switch domains a first speed selection command specifying a first network speed, and resets by each of the plurality of switch domains the signaling rate for that switch domain to the first network speed.