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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Aug. 11, 2015
Filed:
Jul. 02, 2012
Liang Ping Peng, Santa Clara, CA (US);
Norman Tang, Los Altos, CA (US);
David Lai, Mountain View, CA (US);
Anthony Nguyen, San Jose, CA (US);
Liang Ping Peng, Santa Clara, CA (US);
Norman Tang, Los Altos, CA (US);
David Lai, Mountain View, CA (US);
Anthony Nguyen, San Jose, CA (US);
Cisco Technology, Inc., San Jose, CA (US);
Abstract
A system, method and apparatus is provided for optimizing network data communications. At an extender device, a data signal is received at a host link port across a data cable that is interfaced with the host link port. The host link port is configured to receive the data signal. The data cable is configured to carry management communications and data communications between a switch host device and the extender unit device. The data signal is split into data signal components. Each of the data signal components comprises a ten gigabit per second portion of the data signal. The data signal components are sent to one or more network devices via one or more corresponding data transmission ports.