Man T Trinh

US Patent:

20150334034, Nov 19, 2015

Filed:

May 19, 2015

Appl. No.:

14/716699

Inventors:

- San Jose CA, US
Soochon Radee - Washington DC, US
Suresh Shelvapille - Rockville MD, US
Edward Kinzler - Brunswick MD, US
Richard Smedley - Clarksville MD, US
Joseph Senesi - New Market MD, US
Daniel Eigenbrode - Frederick MD, US
John Wolf - Adamstown MD, US
Anunoy Ghosh - Germantown MD, US
Gerard Jankauskas - Mendon MA, US
Man Dieu Trinh - San Jose CA, US

Assignee:

BAY MICROSYSTEMS, INC. - San Jose CA

International Classification:

H04L 12/801
H04L 29/08

Abstract:

Systems and methods accessing remote digital data over a wide area network (WAN) are disclosed. In an embodiment, a network device is disclosed. The network device includes a local area network (LAN) switching fabric physical interface configured to communicate according to a LAN switching fabric protocol, a WAN physical interface configured to communicate according to a WAN protocol, and a fabric extension function configured to map LAN switching fabric interfaces to pseudo-ports, map pseudo-ports to WAN interfaces, and transmit LAN fabric datagrams received at the LAN switching fabric physical interface from the WAN physical interface via a mapped pseudo-port and a corresponding WAN interface.