Content service aggregation system

US7765328B2 · kind B2 · utility

Assignee

• Juniper Networks, Inc. · US

Inventors

• Mark Bryers · Loomis, US
• Elango Ganesan · Palo Alto, US
• Frederick Gruner · Palo Alto, US
• David T. Hass · Santa Clara, US
• Robert Hathaway · Sunnyvale, US
• Ramesh Panwar · Pleasanton, US
• Ricardo Ramirez · Sunnyvale, US
• Abbas Rashid · Fremont, US
• Mark Vilas · Apex, US
• Nazar Zaidi · San Jose, US
• Yen Lee · San Jose, US
• Chau Ahn Ngoc Nguyen · San Jose, US
• John Phillips · Santa Clara, US
• Yuhong Andy Zhou · Alameda, US
• Gregory G. Spurrier · Sunnyvale, US
• Sankar Ramanoorthi · San Jose, US
• Michael Freed · Pleasanton, US

Key dates

• Filing date: Nov 7, 2007
• Grant date: Jul 27, 2010
• Expiry date: Jul 1, 2028

Classification

• Technology area (CPC H): Electricity
• CPC primary: H04L63/0485
• WIPO field: Digital communication
• WIPO sector: Electrical engineering

Abstract

A network content service apparatus includes a set of compute elements adapted to perform a set of network services; and a switching fabric coupling compute elements in said set of compute elements. The set of network services includes firewall protection, Network Address Translation, Internet Protocol forwarding, bandwidth management, Secure Sockets Layer operations, Web caching, Web switching, and virtual private networking. Code operable on the compute elements enables the network services, and the compute elements are provided on blades which further include at least one input/output port.