Patent ID: 7957407
Filing Date: 2011-06-07
Classification: H04L

Abstract:
1. A method comprising: receiving, via a first set of a plurality of network interfaces of a network-computing device, a plurality of Ethernet frames encapsulated within a first plurality of media transmissions each having a different media format of a plurality of media formats; relaying, via a switch fabric of the network-computing device, the first plurality of media transmissions to a virtual bridge application, which acts as a single bridging domain for all Ethernet frames, running on a processing resource shared by the plurality of network interfaces; encapsulating the plurality of Ethernet frames within a second plurality of media transmissions by performing, by the virtual bridge application, media agnostic Ethernet bridging of the plurality of Ethernet frames; transmitting the plurality of Ethernet frames by relaying, via the switch fabric, the second plurality of media transmissions to a second set of the plurality of network interfaces.