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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Jul. 01, 2014
Filed:
Jun. 23, 2009
Norman Tang, Los Altos, CA (US);
Adam Jonathan Carter, San Jose, CA (US);
David C. Lai, Mountain View, CA (US);
Liang Ping Peng, Santa Clara, CA (US);
Guoying Ding, Sunnyvale, CA (US);
Norman Tang, Los Altos, CA (US);
Adam Jonathan Carter, San Jose, CA (US);
David C. Lai, Mountain View, CA (US);
Liang Ping Peng, Santa Clara, CA (US);
Guoying Ding, Sunnyvale, CA (US);
Cisco Technology, Inc., San Jose, CA (US);
Abstract
A method is provided, including (a) upon a standard small form-factor pluggable (SFP) module being inserted into an SFP jack on a network host device, determining if the SFP module is a legacy device or a smart device, (b) upon determining that the SFP module is a legacy device, receiving a magic code from the SFP module and determining if the magic code is a valid magic code, and (c) upon determining that the SFP module is a smart device, performing a smart authentication process with the SFP module. Associated apparatuses and additional methods are also provided.