Patent ID: 9699078
Date: 2017-07-04
CPC Classifications: H04L

Claim:
1. A method of building a multiple plane unified stacking topology network comprising: providing a baseline network comprising endpoints, edge switches, and links, and containing more than one decoupled all-to-all connections that are not contained in a larger all-to-all connection; duplicating the baseline network, each duplicated baseline network forming a plane, to form a multiple plane switching topology; providing global switches decoupling multiple planes, each global switch in the same position in the multiple planes are consolidated into a single switch; replacing the links in all or a subset of the all-to-all connections in each plane with a set of star connections, where each of target all-to-all connections is decomposed into smaller all-to-all connections and replacing each of the smaller all-to-all connections with a star connection of the same size in each plane and where a global switch acts as the center switch of the star connection and each global switch connected to each plane acts as the center switches of star connections in multiple planes; connecting each global switch directly to edge switches in multiple planes, and transporting packet traffic from a source end point selected from the endpoints and a destination endpoint selected from the endpoints, wherein the packet traffic within each plane of the multiple planes does not interfere with other planes of the multiple planes based on the decoupling of the multiple planes.