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Manageability tools for lossless networks

US8498213B2 · kind B2 · utility

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Assignee

Brocade Communications Systems LLC · US

Inventors

Sathish Kumar Gnanasekaran · Sunnyvale, US
Rishi Sinha · San Jose, US
Michael Gee · San Jose, US

Key dates

Filing date	Sep 14, 2010
Grant date	Jul 30, 2013
Priority date	—
Expiry date	Jun 30, 2031

Classification

Technology area (CPC H)Electricity
CPC primaryH04L67/1097
WIPO fieldDigital communication
WIPO sectorElectrical engineering

Abstract

Manageability tools are provided for allowing an administrator to have better control over switches in a lossless network of switches. These tools provide the ability to detect slow drain and congestion bottlenecks, detect stuck virtual channels and loss of credits, while hold times on edge ASICs to be different from hold times encore ASICs, and mitigate severe latency bottlenecks.

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