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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
May. 09, 2017
Filed:
Mar. 05, 2013
Applicant:
Cisco Technology, Inc., San Jose, CA (US);
Inventors:
Shyam Kapadia, Santa Clara, CA (US);
Nilesh Shah, Fremont, CA (US);
Bhushan Kanekar, Saratoga, CA (US);
Assignee:
Cisco Technology, Inc., San Jose, CA (US);
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Assistant Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
H04L 12/28 (2006.01); H04L 12/56 (2006.01); H04L 12/18 (2006.01); H04L 12/761 (2013.01); H04L 12/741 (2013.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
H04L 12/1881 (2013.01); H04L 45/16 (2013.01); H04L 45/54 (2013.01);
Abstract
Systems and methods are provided for a multicast based solution to solving the slow-start problem that ensures both optimal (1-hop) and in-sequence delivery of packets to the destination. Packets are hardware switched thereby completely eliminating the slow software switching path.