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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Sep. 15, 2015
Filed:
May. 16, 2012
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);
Atul Tambe, 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);
Atul Tambe, Cupertino, CA (US);
International Business Machines Corporation, Armonk, NY (US);
Abstract
A scaled-out fabric coupler (SFC) chassis includes a plurality of root fabric cards installed on the one side of the SFC chassis. Each root fabric card has a plurality of electrical connectors. A plurality of line cards is installed on the opposite side of the SFC chassis. Each line card is one of two types of line cards. One of the two types of line cards is a switch-based network line card having network ports for connecting to servers and switches. The other of the two types of line cards is a leaf fabric card having fabric ports for connecting to a fabric port of a network element. Each of the two types of the line cards has electrical connectors that mate with one electrical connector of each root fabric card installed in the chassis.