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Reliability for interconnect fabrics

  • US 7,233,983 B2
  • Filed: 01/17/2002
  • Issued: 06/19/2007
  • Est. Priority Date: 11/06/2000
  • Status: Expired due to Term
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1. A method of providing reliability to an interconnect fabric for communication among a set of nodes, the method comprising:

  • partitioning ports associated with each node into a first set of ports and a second set of ports;

    forming a primary interconnect fabric among the first set of ports in response to a set of flow requirements; and

    forming a backup interconnect fabric among the second set of ports wherein the backup interconnect fabric carries a portion of communications carried by the primary fabric so as to protect against occurrence of a failure in the primary fabric, said forming the backup interconnect fabric comprising determining feasibility of merging candidate flow sets based on a sum of flow requirements in the candidate flow sets that are interrupted by a single failure in the primary interconnect fabric.

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