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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Jun. 17, 2014
Filed:
Feb. 07, 2008
Suresh Katukam, San Jose, CA (US);
Navindra Yadav, San Jose, CA (US);
Shree Murthy, San Jose, CA (US);
Abhay Roy, Cupertino, CA (US);
Suresh Katukam, San Jose, CA (US);
Navindra Yadav, San Jose, CA (US);
Shree Murthy, San Jose, CA (US);
Abhay Roy, Cupertino, CA (US);
Cisco Technology, Inc., San Jose, CA (US);
Abstract
In one embodiment, detecting a host device on a port of a forwarder switch in a network, detecting a movement of the host device from a first forwarder switch to a second forwarder switch, and multicast broadcasting an updated device information for the host device to a convergence group switches and a proximity group switches, where the convergence group switches includes switches in the network that are not configured as forwarder switches, and the proximity group switches include forwarder switches grouped together based on radio proximity is provided.