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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Sep. 27, 2016
Filed:
Apr. 30, 2012
Applicant:
Siamack Ayandeh, Concord, MA (US);
Inventor:
Siamack Ayandeh, Concord, MA (US);
Assignee:
HEWLETT PACKARD ENTERPRISE DEVELOPMENT LP, Houston, TX (US);
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
H04L 12/721 (2013.01); H04L 12/931 (2013.01); H04L 12/741 (2013.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
H04L 45/66 (2013.01); H04L 45/74 (2013.01); H04L 49/351 (2013.01); H04L 49/357 (2013.01); H04L 49/70 (2013.01);
Abstract
Network devices, systems, and methods, including program instructions are disclosed which provide a converged fabric for Fiber Channel over Ethernet (FCoE). A network device includes a Fiber Channel Controller (FCC), located outside of a lossless Ethernet network. The FCC has a processing resource coupled to a memory. The memory includes program instructions executed by the processing resource to terminate Fiber Channel (FC) Initialization Protocol (FIP) frames, generated to and by initiator and target devices, on the FCC.