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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Jan. 01, 2013
Filed:
Dec. 28, 2010
Applicant:
Balakrishna Raghunath, San Jose, CA (US);
Inventor:
Balakrishna Raghunath, San Jose, CA (US);
Assignee:
Juniper Networks, Inc., Sunnyvale, CA (US);
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
H04L 12/50 (2006.01); H04Q 11/00 (2006.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
Abstract
A network device having a distributed, multi-stage forwarding architecture uses a two-stage process for planned orderly offlining of switch fabric components. The process includes a prepare stage in which preparations are made from downstream components to upstream components for offlining and new spray weights are calculated but not applied, and a commit stage in which new spray weights are committed and applied to traffic from upstream components to downstream components.