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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Jan. 01, 2013
Filed:
Mar. 01, 2010
Hemal Shah, Tabuco Canyon, CA (US);
Burhan Masood, Irvine, CA (US);
Frankie Fan, Diamond Bar, CA (US);
Robert Lusinsky, Anaheim Hills, CA (US);
Vijay Sagar, San Francisco, CA (US);
Hemal Shah, Tabuco Canyon, CA (US);
Burhan Masood, Irvine, CA (US);
Frankie Fan, Diamond Bar, CA (US);
Robert Lusinsky, Anaheim Hills, CA (US);
Vijay Sagar, San Francisco, CA (US);
Broadcom Corporation, Irvine, CA (US);
Abstract
A server comprising a network interface controller (NIC) may be operable to determine network components and/or resources that may be utilized to create, modify and/or terminate a hyper-channel in a network fabric. A configuration for creating, modifying and/or terminating the hyper-channel may be initiated by the NIC based on knowledge of the network fabric up to the edge of network and each of the switches along a path of the hyper-channel may be instructed by the NIC to configure the hyper-channel. The configuration may also be initiated by the NIC based on knowledge of the network fabric up to a first hop and each of the switches along a path of the hyper-channel may then be allowed to configure the hyper-channel based on knowledge of the network fabric surrounding each of the switches.