This application provides a data communications system and method. The system includes a first chassis and a second chassis. The first chassis includes a first high-performance switching module and a first low-performance switching module. The second chassis includes a second high-performance switching module and a second low-performance switching module. The first high-performance switching module is connected to the second low-performance switching module. The first low-performance switching module is connected to the second high-performance switching module. The first high-performance switching module is configured to connect to a third low-performance switching module in a third chassis that is to be added to the communications system. The second high-performance switching module is configured to connect to a fourth low-performance switching module in the third chassis that is to be added to the communications system. During capacity expansion, there is no need to change cables between deployed chassis.

The deployment and scaling of a network of electronic devices can be improved by utilizing one or more network transpose boxes. Each transpose box can include a number of connectors and a meshing useful for implementing a specific network topology. Different tiers of a network can be connected to one or more of the network transpose boxes, and operated as a logical switch. A control server can be used to manage the control plane operations of the logical switch.

A novel and efficient method is described that creates a monolithic high capacity Packet Engine (PE) by connecting N lower capacity Packet Engines (PEs) via a novel Chip-to-Chip (C2C) interface. The C2C interface is used to perform functions, such as memory bit slicing and to communicate shared information, and enqueue/dequeue operations between individual PEs.

The present disclosure provides a structured, pipelined large time-space switch and method of operation resolving interconnect complexity. The time-space switch results in an interconnect complexity that does not grow as the spatial dimension is increased and results in a reduction of long high fan-out nets, a quicker layout, and improved clock speed. With respect to time-space switch fabric implementation, the present invention improves the maximum clock frequency of the switch fabric, and improves integrated circuit layout time by eliminating long high fan-out nets. Certain high-speed large switch fabrics may not be realizable without this implementation, and it significantly reduces implementation time (and cost). The present invention may include link encoding of switch frames by mapping 8B10B control characters into an 64B65B format (similar to Generic Framing Protocol-Transparent (GFP-T)), wrapping 32 65B encoded words with an 11-bit error correcting code, and scrambling the frame with a frame synchronous scrambler.

Embodiments of the present invention disclose a method and apparatus for processing a cluster in a cluster system, and a cluster system, relate to the field of communications technologies, and are invented for effectively simplifying a cluster system. The method includes: sending, by switched fabric board of a member device, a request answer signal for requesting a main control board that receives the request answer signal to answer the request answer signal; and if the switched fabric board do not receive an answer signal of the request answer signal, sending, by the switched fabric board, an address of a main monitoring module to a main control board of a main device. The present invention may be applied to a clustering technology.

According to some embodiments, a method performed by a first software defined wide area network (SD-WAN) edge router communicably coupled to a public network comprises: receiving a transport location (TLOC)-extension configuration for a known interface of the first edge router; detecting a second edge router attempting to connect to the known interface of the first edge router; and transmitting, to the second edge router, configuration information for the second edge router so that the second edge router is able to communicate with the public network through a TLOC-extension with the first edge router. In some embodiments, the second edge router receives device configuration information (e.g., PnP, ZTP, etc.) from the public network via the TLOC-extension.

According to some embodiments, a method performed by a first software defined wide area network (SD-WAN) edge router communicably coupled to a public network comprises: receiving a transport location (TLOC)-extension configuration for a known interface of the first edge router; detecting a second edge router attempting to connect to the known interface of the first edge router; and transmitting, to the second edge router, configuration information for the second edge router so that the second edge router is able to communicate with the public network through a TLOC-extension with the first edge router. In some embodiments, the second edge router receives device configuration information (e.g., PnP, ZTP, etc.) from the public network via the TLOC-extension.

Embodiments may be generally direct to apparatuses, systems, method, and techniques to determine a configuration for a plurality of connectors, the configuration to associate a first interconnect protocol with a first subset of the plurality of connectors and a second interconnect protocol with a second subset of the plurality of connectors, the first interconnect protocol and the second interconnect protocol are different interconnect protocols and each comprising one of a serial link protocol, a coherent link protocol, and an accelerator link protocol, cause processing of data for communication via the first subset of the plurality of connectors in accordance with the first interconnect protocol, and cause processing of data for communication via the second subset of the plurality of connector in accordance with the second interconnect protocol.

Technologies for switching network traffic include a network switch. The network switch includes one or more processors and communication circuitry coupled to the one or more processors. The communication circuity is capable of switching network traffic of multiple link layer protocols. Additionally, the network switch includes one or more memory devices storing instructions that, when executed, cause the network switch to receive, with the communication circuitry through an optical connection, network traffic to be forwarded, and determine a link layer protocol of the received network traffic. The instructions additionally cause the network switch to forward the network traffic as a function of the determined link layer protocol. Other embodiments are also described and claimed.

One embodiment of the present invention provides a switch. During operation, the switch parses a first schema of the switch. The first schema indicates initialization information for one or more services of the switch expressed based on one or more tags. The switch then identifies a tag of the one or more tags in the first schema based on the parsing and identifies information corresponding to the tag from a profile of the switch. Subsequently, the switch generates a second schema from the first schema based on the identified information.