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United States of America Patent

PATENT NO 8780911
APP PUB NO 20120087372A1
SERIAL NO

12900435

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A network switch suitable for receiving packets of information from and the packets of information to a communications network includes a plurality of physical ports, packet processing functionality and memory. The packet processing functionality operates on information stored in memory to determine the LAG, from among two or more LAGs, over which a packet received by the switch should be correctly forwarded. The switch memory stores a plurality of LAG tables, each one of which can include one or more entries comprising a physical port number and a packet parameter that are used by the packet processing functionality to determinately identify the correct LAG over which to forward a packet.

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  • FORCE10 NETWORKS, INC.

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Inventor Name Address # of filed Patents Total Citations
Narasimhan, Janardhanan P Tamilnadu, IN 8 190

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