Introducing cascaded intelligent services in a SAN environment
US8166196B2 · kind B2 · utility
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| Filing date | Mar 27, 2009 |
| Grant date | Apr 24, 2012 |
| Priority date | — |
| Expiry date | Jan 3, 2030 |
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- Technology area (CPC H)Electricity
- CPC primaryH04L67/51
- WIPO fieldDigital communication
- WIPO sectorElectrical engineering
Abstract
Techniques are disclosed for redirecting fiber channel data transmitted between nodes in a fiber channel fabric. The redirection allows traffic sent from a host to a target in a storage area network (SAN) to flow through a cascade of applications provided by certain nodes of the fabric (or in some cases, by external appliances). That is, techniques are disclosed for application chaining in the SAN. Doing so allows the SAN to be used as a true network platform for providing a variety of intelligent services within the network (e.g., data migration, encryption, etc).
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