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US 8,625,616 B2Granted
Converged network extension
AssigneeBrocade Communications Systems, Inc.
InventorsSuresh Vobbilisetty, Phanidhar Koganti, Senthilkumar Narayanasamy
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Abstract
One embodiment of the present invention provides a switch. The switch includes a first port configured to receive Transparent Interconnection of Lots of Links (TRILL) traffic; a second port configured to receive Fiber Channel (FC) traffic; and a third port configured to transmit received TRILL or FC traffic based on a Fiber Channel over IP (FCIP) protocol.
Claims21
A switch, comprising:
- Transparent Interconnection of Lots of Links (TRILL) management module operable to identify a TRILL routing bridge (RBridge) identifier in a first packet;
- a Fibre Channel (FC) management module operable to identify an FC domain identifier in a second packet;
- and
- a Fibre Channel over IP (FCIP) management module operable to:
- indicate a virtual switch identifier associated with the switch as a source address for the first or second packet;
- and
- initiate an FCIP tunnel operable to encapsulate the first and second packets.
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A method, comprising:
- identifying a Transparent Interconnection of Lots of Links (TRILL) routing bridge (RBridge) identifier in a first packet;
- identifying a Fibre Channel (FC) domain identifier in a second packet;
- indicating a virtual switch identifier associated with a switch as a source address for the first or second packet;
- and
- initiating a Fibre Channel over IP (FCIP) tunnel operable to encapsulate the first and second packets.
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A computing system, comprising:
- a processor;
- a non-transitory computer-readable storage medium storing instructions which when executed by the processor causes the processor to perform a method, the method comprising;
- identifying a Transparent Interconnection of Lots of Links (TRILL) routing bridge (RBridge) identifier in a first packet;
- identifying a Fibre Channel (FC) domain identifier in a second packet
- indicating a virtual switch identifier associated with a switch as a source address for the first or second packet;
- and
- initiating a Fibre Channel over IP (FCIP) tunnel operable to encapsulate the first and second packets.
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Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.