Invention Grant
- Patent Title: Heterogeneous media packet bridging
- Patent Title (中): 异构媒体分组桥接
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Application No.: US12781807Application Date: 2010-05-17
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Publication No.: US07957407B2Publication Date: 2011-06-07
- Inventor: Sachin Desai , Rajesh Balay , Chandramouli Sargor
- Applicant: Sachin Desai , Rajesh Balay , Chandramouli Sargor
- Applicant Address: US CA Sunnyvale
- Assignee: Fortinet, Inc.
- Current Assignee: Fortinet, Inc.
- Current Assignee Address: US CA Sunnyvale
- Agency: Hamilton, DeSanctis & Cha LLP
- Main IPC: H04L12/28
- IPC: H04L12/28

Abstract:
Methods and systems for bridging Ethernet frames transmitted over heterogeneous media channels are provided. According to one embodiment, multiple Ethernet frames encapsulated within multiple in-bound media transmissions having different media formats are received via a first set of multiple network interfaces of a network-computing device. The multiple in-bound media transmissions are relayed via a switch fabric of the network-computing device to a virtual bridge application running on a processing resource shared by the network interfaces and which acts as a single bridging domain for all Ethernet frames. The virtual bridge application encapsulates the multiple Ethernet frames within multiple out-bound media transmissions by performing media agnostic Ethernet bridging of the multiple Ethernet frames. The multiple Ethernet frames are transmitted by relaying, via the switch fabric, the out-bound media transmissions to a second set of the multiple network interfaces.
Public/Granted literature
- US20100220741A1 HETEROGENEOUS MEDIA PACKET BRIDGING Public/Granted day:2010-09-02
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