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US 2013/0094498 A1Published application
Dynamic packet routing
AssigneeNant Holdings IP, LLC
InventorThomas Wittenschlaeger
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Abstract
Dynamic packet routing based on fabric awareness information is presented. Networking nodes in a networking fabric observe environmental properties across the fabric. When differences in environment properties between portions of the fabric are detected, differences in power consumption costs for example, the fabric generates corresponding routing tables. The networking nodes can then route traffic in a manner that is sensitive to the environment properties, power consumption or the cost of power for example.
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A networking node comprising
- a plurality of communication ports;
- a fabric awareness module configured to obtain fabric awareness information from other similar networking nodes via at least one of the communication ports, the fabric awareness information comprising differences among fabric environment metrics of the similar networking nodes;
- a routing policy generator coupled with the fabric awareness module and that generates a routing policy according the differences among the fabric environment metrics and according to a prioritized routing policy template;
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- a routing module coupled with the routing policy generator configured to route packets via the communication ports according to the routing policy based on packet attributes.
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