Patent ID: 11962490
Assignee: HEWLETT PACKARD ENTERPRISE DEVELOPMENT LP
Field: Digital communication (Electrical engineering)
Classification: CPC H  G | IPC G  H

Claim 10:
11. A network device in a switch fabric, comprising:
one or more ports; and
an application-specific integrated circuit (ASIC) to:
receive a plurality of packets at an ingress port of the one or more ports;
for a respective packet of the plurality of packets, select a traffic class from a group of traffic classes, wherein a respective traffic class corresponds to a combination of a plurality of application-specific data forwarding characteristics in the switch fabric;
generate a flag indicating the determined traffic class for the packet in the switch fabric;
encapsulate the packet with a fabric-specific encapsulation header comprising the flag;
select a path within the switch fabric for forwarding the packet based on the flag and a destination indicated in the encapsulation header; and
forward the encapsulated packet via the selected path within the switch fabric.