Patent ID: 9294398
Filing Date: 2016-03-22
CPC Classification: H04L

Claim Text:
1. A method comprising, responsive to a network fabric login request initiated by a first node: by a network fabric forwarder device, by a network fabric controller device, determining, using the network fabric addresses of the first node and of the second nodes, one or more paths between the first node and the second nodes through a singly contiguous network fabric and loading the paths into a forwarding table of each switching device of a plurality of switching devices of the singly contiguous network fabric, such that multipaths for transmission of data through the singly contiguous network fabric from the first node and the second nodes are effected, wherein the network fabric forwarder device and the network fabric controller device are each control-path or programming-path connected to each switching device, the network fabric controller device does not directly route the data, and the switching devices route the data between the first node and the second nodes.