Patent ID: 8223633
Filing Date: 2012-07-17
Classification: H04L,Y02D

Abstract:
1. A method comprising: connecting physical communication ports of an edge switch via a trunk formed of two or more parallel physical communication links to physical communication ports of a node device, with one physical communication port of the edge switch and one physical communication port of the node device per physical communication link within the trunked parallel physical communication links, wherein each of the trunk-connected physical communication ports of the edge switch is configured as a type of F_PORT and the each of the trunk-connected physical communication ports of the node device is configured as a type of N_PORT, so that there are two or more physical F_PORTs on the edge switch and two or more physical N_PORTs on the node device, with the physical F_PORTs of edge device being in parallel and the physical N_PORTs of the node device being in parallel; and communicating a frame stream on an in-order delivery basis across a plurality of the two or more trunked parallel physical communication links in the trunk between the trunk-connected physical F_PORTs of the edge switch and the trunk-connected physical N_PORTs of the node device.