Patent ID: 11916774
Assignee: KEYSIGHT TECHNOLOGIES, INC.
Field: nan (nan)
Classification: CPC nan | IPC H

Claim 7:
8. A method for testing a network system under test (SUT), the method comprising:
emulating, using physical application-specific integrated circuit (ASIC) switching resources, data center switching fabric comprising a plurality of data center fabric switching elements;
processing, by a first control plane daemon implemented on at least one processor, control plane messages for a first data center fabric switching element of the data center switching fabric emulated using the physical ASIC switching resources, wherein the at least one processor is physically located remote from an emulated datacenter testbed device housing the physical ASIC switching resources;
communicating, by a first port, at least a first control plane message for processing by the first control plane daemon;
relaying, by a control plane relay daemon, the control plane messages from the emulated datacenter testbed device to the first control plane daemon; and
relaying, by the control plane relay daemon, additional control plane messages from additional data center fabric switching elements of the data center switching fabric emulated using the physical ASIC switching resources to a pool of control plane daemons executed by the at least one processor remote from the emulated datacenter testbed device.