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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Mar. 08, 2016
Filed:
Aug. 05, 2014
Brocade Communications System, Inc., San Jose, CA (US);
Michael K. T. Lee, San Jose, CA (US);
Brocade Communications Systems, Inc., San Jose, CA (US);
Abstract
Method and apparatus provide for cooling a system. For example, a network communication system may include a central processing unit (CPU) and a fan controller. A chassis includes a plurality of receiving portions, each portion configured to receive a field replaceable unit (FRU). The chassis may also include a fan and a temperature sensor. The system CPU is configured to load a plurality of environmental profiles into fan controller memory, each profile indicating a fan speed for the fan based on a temperature reading from the temperature sensor. The fan controller is to determine a first configuration of the network communication device as to which FRUs are installed in the chassis and to select an environmental profile from the fan controller memory to use based on the determined first configuration.