High availability/high density system and method
AssigneeTrillium Digital Systems, Inc.
InventorsMichael Coward, Robert Cagle
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Abstract
A system and method for providing high availability for telecommunications and data communications by implementing a network bus architecture at a card level. The network bus architecture, which may be a combination of hardware, software, and APIs, replaces the conventional midplane/backplane as the system bus for PCI purposes. The system provides physical redundancy to the system by connecting ports of the various system cards using dual/redundant ethernet switches. Further, since the system cards are connected through network connections, failure of any component is interpreted and addressed as a network failure instead of as a hardware failure.
Claims15
A high availability telecom/datacom architecture comprising:
- dual/redundant ethernet switches;
- a plurality of I/O cards connected to the dual/redundant ethernet switches;
- and
- at least two CPUs coupled to each other and to the plurality of I/O cards via the ethernet switches.
A high availability telecom/datacom architecture comprising:
- dual/redundant network links;
- a plurality of I/O cards connected to the dual/redundant network links;
- and
- a system controller coupled to the plurality of I/O cards via the dual/redundant network links.
A network bus architecture for providing high availability to telecom/datacom systems comprising:
- dual/redundant network links;
- a plurality of I/O cards connected to the dual/redundant network links;
- and,
- a system controller coupled to each other and to the plurality of I/O cards via the dual/redundant network links.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.