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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Sep. 06, 2011
Filed:
Apr. 11, 2006
James William Edwards, Iii, Austin, TX (US);
Thao M. Hoang, Cedar Park, TX (US);
James William Edwards, III, Austin, TX (US);
Thao M. Hoang, Cedar Park, TX (US);
Cisco Technology, Inc., San Jose, CA (US);
Abstract
Methods and apparatus for selectively routing traffic from a port in a switch for use in a chassis-based server are provided. The switch may include a flexible physical layer component, allowing traffic from a channel (e.g., an Ethernet channel) to be routed to a connector on a front panel of the switch or to switch cross-connect routing in a backplane of the server system. The routing may be selectable by a user, for example, under software control, allowing flexibility to the user to select the routing that best fits an application, while conserving resources by not requiring a dedicated channel for each routing data path.