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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Jan. 31, 2017
Filed:
Aug. 28, 2012
Rajesh Narayanan, San Jose, CA (US);
Saikrishna Kotha, Austin, TX (US);
Robert L. Winter, Leander, TX (US);
Rajesh Narayanan, San Jose, CA (US);
Saikrishna Kotha, Austin, TX (US);
Robert L. Winter, Leander, TX (US);
DELL PRODUCTS, LP, Round Rock, TX (US);
Abstract
A network switching device includes a macroflow sub-plane that performs packet-based routing in the network switching device and a microflow routing module that performs flow-based routing in the network switching device. The microflow routing module is separable from the network switching device and operates to provide a data packet via a software defined network agent to an SDN controller. The data packet is associated with a first unknown flow on the network switching device. The microflow routing module further operates to receive via the SDN agent a flow-based routing rule from the SDN controller and route the data packet based upon the flow-based routing rule.