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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Aug. 19, 2014
Filed:
Nov. 26, 2012
Applicant:
Juniper Networks, Inc., Sunnyvale, CA (US);
Inventors:
Philippe Lacroute, Sunnyvale, CA (US);
Matthew A. Tucker, Truckee, CA (US);
John D. Weisbloom, Cupertino, CA (US);
Anjan Venkatramani, Mountain View, CA (US);
Jayabharat Boddu, Santa Clara, CA (US);
Stefan Dyckerhoff, Palo Alto, CA (US);
Assignee:
Juniper Networks, Inc., Sunnyvale, CA (US);
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
H04L 12/50 (2006.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
Abstract
A switching device includes multiple interfaces and a switch fabric. The switch fabric includes switch integrated circuits arranged in a number of stages. Multiple virtual switch planes may be implemented in the switch fabric. Data traffic received at the interfaces is selectively assigned to different ones of the virtual switch planes.