Invention Grant
- Patent Title: Automated multi-fabric link aggregation system
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Application No.: US16946908Application Date: 2020-07-10
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Publication No.: US11431652B2Publication Date: 2022-08-30
- Inventor: Balaji Rajagopalan , Pawan Kumar Singal , Joseph LaSalle White , Kevin K. Matsuo
- Applicant: Dell Products L.P.
- Applicant Address: US TX Round Rock
- Assignee: Dell Products L.P.
- Current Assignee: Dell Products L.P.
- Current Assignee Address: US TX Round Rock
- Agent Joseph Mencher
- Main IPC: H04L49/15
- IPC: H04L49/15 ; H04L49/90 ; H04L49/1515 ; H04L49/10

Abstract:
An automated multi-fabric link aggregation system includes leaf switch devices that have leaf switch device downlink ports, that are included in a first network fabric, and that are aggregated to provide a first aggregation fabric. Each leaf switch device generates discovery communications including a first network fabric identifier for the first network fabric, and a first aggregation fabric identifier for the first aggregation fabric. The leaf switch devices then transmit the discovery communications via the leaf switch device downlink ports. I/O modules that have I/O module uplink port are included in a second network fabric and are aggregated to provide a second aggregation fabric. The I/O modules receive the discovery communications via each of the I/O module uplink ports, determine that each received discovery communication includes the first network fabric identifier and the first aggregation fabric identifier and, in response, automatically configure the I/O module uplink ports in a LAG.
Public/Granted literature
- US20220014481A1 AUTOMATED MULTI-FABRIC LINK AGGREGATION SYSTEM Public/Granted day:2022-01-13
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