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Date of Patent:
Oct. 06, 2015

Filed:

Jan. 23, 2013
Applicant:

Cisco Technology, Inc., San Jose, CA (US);

Inventors:

Mohammed Aziz, Bangalore, IN;

Sudhakar Shenoy, Bangalore, IN;

Ganesh Sankarapandiyan, Bangalore, IN;

Bhaskar Srinivasan, Bangalore, IN;

Assignee:

Cisco Technology, Inc., San Jose, CA (US);

Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
H04L 12/24 (2006.01); H04L 12/931 (2013.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
H04L 41/0803 (2013.01); H04L 41/044 (2013.01); H04L 49/70 (2013.01);
Abstract

A multi-node virtual switching system (MVSS) may be provided. A virtual supervisor module (VSM) may be configured onto a network device to serve as a single control point for a network. The VSM may virtualize an interconnection of switches within the network as a virtual fabric and allocate a portion of the network switches to a network domain. The allocated portion of network switches may be represented by the VSM as a single virtualized logical switch. The VSM may then manage the network domain from the single control point.


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