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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Feb. 23, 2016
Filed:
Apr. 04, 2013
Applicant:
Marvell Israel (M.i.s.l) Ltd., Yokneam, IL;
Inventors:
Youval Nachum, Holon, IL;
Tal Mizrahi, Haifa, IL;
Assignee:
MARVELL ISRAEL (M.I.S.L) LTD., Yokneam, IL;
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Assistant Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
H04L 12/741 (2013.01); H04L 12/721 (2013.01); H04L 12/46 (2006.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
H04L 45/74 (2013.01); H04L 12/4641 (2013.01); H04L 45/66 (2013.01);
Abstract
A transparent edge Routing Bridge (RBridge) including a first communication unit configured to receive a data packet from an access segment of a network, the data packet including an egress device nickname and at least one Virtual Local Area Network (VLAN) tag, a TRansparent Interconnection of Lots of Links (TRILL) header constructing unit configured to construct a TRILL header based on the VLAN tag, and a second communication unit that transmits the data packet, including the TRILL header, to an egress device corresponding to the egress device nickname via a TRILL compliant interconnection layer.