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Resiliency in ethernet fabric architectures by event notification

  • US 10,033,572 B2
  • Filed: 03/11/2015
  • Issued: 07/24/2018
  • Est. Priority Date: 03/11/2015
  • Status: Active Grant
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1. A method for improving resiliency in computing components functioning according to a multilayered Open Systems Interconnection (OSI) model in a network architecture running Ethernet or Internet protocols, by a processor device, comprising:

  • upon detection of at least one transient quality of service (QoS) event associated with a network health within a specified layer of the network architecture, providing a notification of the event in an inter-layer basis, such that a responsible entity comprising an entity which detected the event manages the event by forwarding the notification describing the event to each device in the network architecture on the inter-layer basis according to an OSI model-wide system;

    wherein forwarding the notification on the inter-layer basis further includes end port devices sending the notification, switch devices flooding the notification from all ports, and router devices broadcasting or multicasting the notification from all subnets thereby providing the notification on the inter-layer basis so as to notify at least all layer 2 and layer 3 devices in the network architecture of the detected at least one transient QoS event.

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