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Date of Patent:
Jun. 23, 2015

Filed:

Oct. 06, 2011
Applicants:

Nilanjan Mukherjee, Santa Clara, CA (US);

Dayavanti G. Karnath, Santa Clara, CA (US);

Keshav Kamble, Fremont, CA (US);

Dar-ren Leu, San Jose, CA (US);

Vijoy Pandey, San Jose, CA (US);

Inventors:

Nilanjan Mukherjee, Santa Clara, CA (US);

Dayavanti G. Karnath, Santa Clara, CA (US);

Keshav Kamble, Fremont, CA (US);

Dar-Ren Leu, San Jose, CA (US);

Vijoy Pandey, San Jose, CA (US);

Attorneys:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
H04L 12/26 (2006.01); H04L 12/801 (2013.01); H04L 12/24 (2006.01); H04L 12/937 (2013.01); H04L 12/803 (2013.01); H04L 12/729 (2013.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
H04L 47/12 (2013.01); H04L 43/0882 (2013.01); H04L 43/12 (2013.01); H04L 41/12 (2013.01); H04L 49/254 (2013.01); H04L 47/122 (2013.01); H04L 45/125 (2013.01);
Abstract

A switch for a switching network includes a plurality of ports for communicating data traffic and a switch controller that controls switching between the plurality of ports. The switch controller selects a forwarding path for the data traffic based on at least topological congestion information for the switching network. In a preferred embodiment, the topological congestion information includes sFlow topological congestion information and the switch controller includes an sFlow client that receives the sFlow topological congestion information from an sFlow controller in the switching network.


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