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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Mar. 15, 2016
Filed:
May. 17, 2013
Benu Networks, Inc., Billerica, MA (US);
David F. Callan, Swampscott, MA (US);
Rajendar Duggal, Lincoln, MA (US);
Anil Sanghavi, Westford, MA (US);
Swarup Sahoo, Acton, MA (US);
Ramesh Gupta, Acton, MA (US);
Rajat Ghai, Sandwich, MA (US);
Benu Networks, Inc., Billerica, MA (US);
Abstract
A computing system for processing network traffic includes a plurality of network ports configured to receive network traffic, a plurality of processing blades, not directly coupled with the plurality of network ports, configured to process the network traffic, a switch coupled with the plurality of processing blades and configured to support inter-blade communications among the plurality of processing blades, a router coupled with the switch and the plurality of network ports, the router configured to forward the network traffic to one or more of the plurality of processing blades based on resource information of the plurality of the processing blades, and a system controller coupled to the router and the plurality of processing blades, the system controller configured to receive and maintain the resource information from the plurality of the processing blades and further configured to update the router with the resource information of the plurality of the processing blades.