Patent ID: 11863351
Assignee: ARRCUS INC.
Field: Digital communication (Electrical engineering)
Classification: CPC H | IPC G  H

Claim 5:
6. A method comprising:
providing a plurality of hardware disaggregated network elements coupled by a network and not coupled to one another by a common backplane of a chassis;
providing a hardware control element coupled to the plurality of hardware disaggregated network elements; and
distributing, by the hardware control element, router state information to the plurality of hardware disaggregated network elements effective to configure the plurality of hardware disaggregated network elements to function as a single logical router;
hosting, by the hardware control element, control planes for one or more routing protocols including at least one of border gateway protocol (BGP), interior gateway protocol (IGP), address resolution protocol, and neighbor discovery (ND); and
hosting, by the plurality of hardware disaggregated network elements, data planes for the one or more routing protocols;
wherein the hardware control element is a computer system external to the plurality of hardware disaggregated network elements.