Non-blocking any-to-any data center network with packet spraying over multiple alternate data paths
US10686729B2 · kind B2 · utility
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| Filing date | Mar 28, 2018 |
| Grant date | Jun 16, 2020 |
| Priority date | — |
| Expiry date | Mar 28, 2038 |
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- Technology area (CPC H)Electricity
- CPC primaryH04Q11/00
- WIPO fieldDigital communication
- WIPO sectorElectrical engineering
Abstract
A network system for a data center is described in which a switch fabric provides full mesh interconnectivity such that any servers may communicate packet data to any other of the servers using any of a number of parallel data paths. Moreover, according to the techniques described herein, edge-positioned access nodes, optical permutation devices and core switches of the switch fabric may be configured and arranged in a way such that the parallel data paths provide single L2/L3 hop, full mesh interconnections between any pairwise combination of the access nodes, even in massive data centers having tens of thousands of servers.
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