Patent ID: 9025459
Filing Date: 2015-05-05
Classification: H04L,Y02D

Abstract:
1. A method for producing a system capable of load-balancing network traffic, the method comprising: provisioning a plurality of switches, the plurality of switches organized in one or more tiers, wherein a switch in a tier, of the plurality of switches, comprising one or more uplink switch ports and one or more downlink switch ports, is connected to zero or more switches in at least one higher tier via the one or more uplink switch ports and connected to zero or more switches in at least one lower tier via the one or more downlink switch ports; provisioning a plurality of servers, wherein each of the plurality of servers is connected to at least one of the plurality of switches via at least one of the one or more uplink switch ports of the at least one of the plurality of switches; configuring on each of the plurality of switches at least one uplink link aggregation, each of the at least one uplink link aggregation consisting of at least one of the one or more uplink switch ports; configuring on each of the plurality of switches to forward a packet received from any of the one or more downlink switch ports out through one of the at least one uplink link aggregation, the one of the at least one uplink link aggregation being selected based on content of the packet received from any of the one or more downlink switch ports; configuring on each of the plurality of servers to insert one or more labels into a packet to be sent out through at least one of the plurality of switches; and configuring on each of the plurality of switches to forward a packet received from any of the one or more uplink switch ports out through at least one of the one or more downlink switch ports and remove the first of the one or more labels from the packet received from any of the one or more uplink switch ports when the at least one of the one or more downlink switch ports is selected based on the first of the one or more labels in the packet received from any of the one or more uplink switch ports.