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US20060029055A1 - VLAN fabric network - Google Patents
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US20060029055A1
US20060029055A1 US11/248,639 US24863905A US2006029055A1 US 20060029055 A1 US20060029055 A1 US 20060029055A1 US 24863905 A US24863905 A US 24863905A US 2006029055 A1 US2006029055 A1 US 2006029055A1
US11/248,639
2003-10-14 Priority to US51114003P priority Critical
2003-10-14 Priority to US51113903P priority
2005-10-11 Assigned to RAPTOR NETWORK TECHNOLOGIES, INC. reassignment RAPTOR NETWORK TECHNOLOGIES, INC. ASSIGNMENT OF ASSIGNORS INTEREST (SEE DOCUMENT FOR DETAILS). Assignors: HOFFMAN, EDWIN, PERERA, ANANDA
2005-10-11 Priority to US11/248,639 priority patent/US20060029055A1/en
2005-10-11 Application filed by Raptor Networks Tech Inc filed Critical Raptor Networks Tech Inc
2006-02-09 Publication of US20060029055A1 publication Critical patent/US20060029055A1/en
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This application claims priority to provisional application No. 60/511,145 filed Oct. 14, 2003; provisional application No. 60/511,144 filed Oct. 14, 2003; provisional application No. 60/511,143 filed Oct. 14, 2003; provisional application No. 60/511,142 filed Oct. 14, 2003; provisional application No. 60/511,141 filed Oct. 14, 2003; provisional application No. 60/511,140 filed Oct. 14, 2003; provisional application No. 60/511,139 filed Oct. 14, 2003; provisional application No. 60/511,138 filed Oct. 14, 2003; provisional application No. 60/511,021 filed Oct. 14, 2003; and provisional application No. 60/563,262 filed Apr. 16, 2004, all of which are incorporated herein by reference in their entirety.
Leaving aside the switching mechanisms between and within the core elements, the channel switching core of the '522 application provides nothing more than virtual channels between edge devices. It does not switch individual packets of data. Thus, even though the '522 application incorporates by reference Beshai's Ser. No. 09/244,824 application regarding High-Capacity Packet Switch (issued as U.S. Pat. No. 6,721,271 in April 2004), the '522 application still fails to teach, suggest, or motivate one of ordinary skill to provide a fully distributed network (edge and core) that acts as a single switch.
35. A VLAN fabric network having first and second VLAN elements, each of which contains all addressing tables necessary to operate as if it controls the VLAN.
36. The VLAN fabric network of claim 35 wherein at least one of the addressing tables contains MAC addresses of at least one other VLAN element.
37. The VLAN fabric network of claim 35 wherein each of the first and second VLAN elements contain a MAC address table that includes an address of a third VLAN element of the network.
38. The VLAN fabric network of claim 35 wherein the VLAN comprises a geographically distributed subnet.
39. The VLAN fabric network of claim 35 wherein each of the VLAN elements runs a management discovery protocol.
40. The VLAN fabric network of claim 35 wherein each of the VLAN elements runs a protocol that determines whether a particular link to an element is not in service.
41. The VLAN fabric network of claim 35 wherein each of the VLAN elements runs a traffic load protocol.
42. The VLAN fabric network of claim 35 wherein each of the VLAN elements runs a secure data protocol.
43. The VLAN fabric network of claim 35 wherein first and second elements are mapped together in a logical cluster, and addressed by including destination and source cluster IDs in switching headers.
US11/248,639 2003-10-14 2005-10-11 VLAN fabric network Abandoned US20060029055A1 (en)
US11/248,639 US20060029055A1 (en) 2003-10-14 2005-10-11 VLAN fabric network
US10/965,444 Division US20050105538A1 (en) 2003-10-14 2004-10-12 Switching system with distributed switching fabric
US20060029055A1 true US20060029055A1 (en) 2006-02-09
US7352745B2 (en) 2008-04-01
Owner name: RAPTOR NETWORK TECHNOLOGIES, INC., CALIFORNIA
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