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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Oct. 04, 2016
Filed:
May. 22, 2012
Keshav G. Kamble, Fremont, CA (US);
Dar-ren Leu, San Jose, CA (US);
Uday S. Nagaraj, Sunnyvale, CA (US);
Santosh Rajagopalan, San Jose, CA (US);
Keshav G. Kamble, Fremont, CA (US);
Dar-Ren Leu, San Jose, CA (US);
Uday S. Nagaraj, Sunnyvale, CA (US);
Santosh Rajagopalan, San Jose, CA (US);
International Business Machines Corporation, Armonk, NY (US);
Abstract
In one embodiment, a system includes at least one distributed line card (DLC) in electrical communication with at least one switch fabric coupler (SFC) and a meta-controller in electrical communication with the at least one DLC, the meta-controller including a processor for executing logic, logic configured for creating more than one virtual switch and a corresponding virtual control domain (VCD) associated with each virtual switch, wherein each virtual switch includes a plurality of physical ports of one or more of the at least one DLC, and logic configured for autonomously controlling the virtual switches, wherein the system appears to a device external of the system as a single cell switched domain. Other systems are described according to more embodiments.