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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Jun. 16, 2015
Filed:
Apr. 04, 2014
International Business Machines Corporation, Armonk, NY (US);
Sushma Anantharam, Cupertino, CA (US);
Alexander Philip Campbell, Kanata, CA;
Keshav Govind Kamble, Fremont, CA (US);
Dar-Ren Leu, San Jose, CA (US);
Vijoy A. Pandey, San Jose, CA (US);
Nandakumar Peethambaram, Santa Clara, CA (US);
International Business Machines Corporation, Armonk, NY (US);
Abstract
A switch includes network ports and a network processor with a fabric interface that provides SerDes (Serializer/Deserializer) channels. The network processor divides each packet received over the network ports into cells and distributes the cells across the SerDes channels. Fabric ports of the switch communicate with the fabric interface to transmit cells to and receive cells from the fabric interface. The switch is selectively configurable as a standalone switch by connecting each fabric port of the switch to another of the fabric ports of the switch, as a member of a switch stack by connecting each fabric port of the switch to a different other switch through one fabric port of that other switch, or as a member of a distributed fabric system by connecting each fabric port of the switch to a different scaled-out fabric coupler (SFC) chassis by an SFC fabric port of that SFC chassis.