Diagnostics in a distributed fabric system

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United States of America Patent

PATENT NO 9059911
APP PUB NO 20140064105A1
SERIAL NO

14072941

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A distributed fabric system has distributed line card (DLC) chassis and scaled-out fabric coupler (SFC) chassis. Each DLC chassis includes a network processor and fabric ports. Each network processor of each DLC chassis includes a fabric interface in communication with the DLC fabric ports of that DLC chassis. Each SFC chassis includes a fabric element and fabric ports. A communication link connects each SFC fabric port to one DLC fabric port. Each communication link includes cell-carrying lanes. Each fabric element of each SFC chassis collects per-lane statistics for each SFC fabric port of that SFC chassis. Each SFC chassis includes program code that obtains the per-lane statistics collected by the fabric element chip of that SFC chassis. A network element includes program code that gathers the per-lane statistics collected by each fabric element of each SFC chassis and integrates the statistics into a topology of the entire distributed fabric system.

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  • INTERNATIONAL BUSINESS MACHINES CORPORATION

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Inventor Name Address # of filed Patents Total Citations
Anantharam, Sushma Cupertino, US 40 515
Ghosh, Nirapada Sunnyvale, US 24 329
Kamble, Keshav Govind Fremont, US 38 710
Leu, Dar-Ren San Jose, US 89 2058
Mendon, Chandarani J San Jose, US 20 369
Mukharjee, Nilanjan Santa Clara, US 1 9
Pandey, Vijoy San Jose, US 44 2157
Peethambaram, Nandakumar Santa Clara, US 22 244

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