An illustrative embodiment disclosed herein is an apparatus including a processor having programmed instructions to determine that a first packet, received from a first VM on a first host, has a destination address associated with a second VM on the first host, send the first packet to a service-focused bridge, generate a rule to redirect the first packet to the second VM based on the destination address, and generate execute the rule in response to receiving the first packet from the service-focused bridge.

Embodiments of the present disclosure pertain to improved circuit and system architectures for identifying and managing operating statuses and faults in a system having multiple processing circuit chips. Each of the multiple processing circuit chips includes multiple signal rings, one to provide internal communications among circuitry within the circuit chip, and another with inter-chip communications circuitry to provide communications with neighboring circuit chips. One of the multiple processing circuit chips further includes external communications circuitry to provide communications with an external host.

The invention relates to a vehicle having fail-safe internal data transfer. The vehicle comprises a vehicle body and a wired data transfer network provided on the vehicle body. Furthermore, network subscribers are provided on the vehicle body, which network subscribers are connected to each other via respective network nodes of the data transfer network. The data transfer network has a data-transferring ring wiring.

The present invention relates to electronic systems for use in high demand or mission critical environments, including power stations, sub-stations, roadside transportation, rail, and industrial applications. The present invention provides a) increased resilience of mission critical communications infrastructure b) ability to maintain multiple independent RSTP domains over HSR ring d) method of using a hidden VLAN as an RSTP domain ID c) a method of creating multiple redundant protocols domains over HSR ring.

The invention relates to a bus node, which can be connected to a building services bus, which bus node comprises a supply unit and a control unit, wherein the supply unit is designed to output a measurement current onto the building services bus, and wherein the control unit is designed to sense and evaluate a bus current on the building services bus and, on the basis of the evaluation, to determine whether an operating current is output onto the building services bus by the supply unit.

A system and method for facilitating communication between one or more of a plurality of user virtual machines and external devices is disclosed. The system includes a plurality of uplink bridges configured to facilitate communication between the plurality of user virtual machines and the external devices, a plurality of local bridges, with each of the plurality of user virtual machines being connected to one or more of the plurality of local bridges, and a first multiplexing bridge connected to the plurality of local bridges. The first multiplexing bridge is configured to direct data between the plurality of user virtual machines and the plurality of uplink bridges. The system also includes a second multiplexing bridge connected to the first multiplexing bridge and the plurality of uplink bridges. The second multiplexing bridge is configured to direct the data between the first multiplexing bridge and the plurality of uplink bridges.

A method implemented by a node in a network utilizing Multiprotocol Label Switching (MPLS) includes performing a convergence procedure to discover the topology of a network in which multiple nodes are arranged; and upon determining that the topology of the network is a ring topology whereby the node is connected to two neighboring nodes by a respective link, creating a first table for a first link, the first table including labels representing at least a portion of a label stack for allowing the node to transmit packets to another node in the network in a clockwise (CW) direction around the ring; and creating a second table for a second link, the second table including labels representing at least a portion of a label stack for allowing the node to transmit packets to another node in the network in an anti-clockwise (ACW) direction around the ring.

The invention relates to a vehicle having fail-safe internal data transfer. The vehicle comprises a vehicle body and a wired data transfer network provided on the vehicle body. Furthermore, network subscribers are provided on the vehicle body, which network subscribers are connected to each other via respective network nodes of the data transfer network. The data transfer network has a data-transferring ring wiring.

Reconfigurable computing clusters, compute nodes within reconfigurable computing clusters, and methods of operating a reconfigurable computing cluster are disclosed. A reconfigurable computing cluster includes an optical circuit switch, and a plurality of computing assets, each of the plurality of computing assets connected to the optical circuit switch by two or more bidirectional fiber optic communications paths.

Reconfigurable computing clusters, compute nodes within reconfigurable computing clusters, and methods of operating a reconfigurable computing cluster are disclosed. A reconfigurable computing cluster includes an optical circuit switch, and a plurality of computing assets, each of the plurality of computing assets connected to the optical circuit switch by two or more bidirectional fiber optic communications paths.