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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Dec. 03, 2013
Filed:
Jan. 07, 2010
Pankaj K. Jha, Fremont, CA (US);
Vivek Agarwal, San Jose, CA (US);
Mitri Halabi, San Jose, CA (US);
Ananda Rajagopal, San Jose, CA (US);
Ram Dular Singh, San Jose, CA (US);
Pankaj K. Jha, Fremont, CA (US);
Vivek Agarwal, San Jose, CA (US);
Mitri Halabi, San Jose, CA (US);
Ananda Rajagopal, San Jose, CA (US);
Ram Dular Singh, San Jose, CA (US);
Brocade Communications Systems, Inc., San Jose, CA (US);
Abstract
Techniques for provisioning single or multistage networks using Ethernet Service Instances (ESIs). In one embodiment, an ESI is a logical entity or object that stores information that may be used to provision a network. An ESI may represent a logical entity that identifies a grouping of elements of a network or network device and associated attributes. Hierarchical relationships may be created between ESIs. The hierarchical relationships are used to perform packet-level processing including performing network packet encapsulations.