Interconnected trunk cluster arrangement

Multiplex communications – Pathfinding or routing – Switching a message which includes an address header

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370406, 370410, H04L 1256

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060581166

ABSTRACT:
An arrangement of trunk clusters and a method for interconnecting trunk clusters wherein the interconnection method has no single point of failure, the bandwidth between trunk clusters is not limited by the throughput of a single switch, and faults are contained within each trunk cluster. A trunked interconnection structure is provided between trunk clusters. Each switch of a trunk cluster has a logical port connected to a trunked port. The trunked port or trunk port provides a physical connection to each trunk switch of another trunk cluster. Each trunk switch of the another trunk cluster has a logical port connected to a trunked port which in turn has physical connections to each switch of the first trunk cluster. Trunked interconnect isolates faults to a single trunk cluster and there is no single point of failure and the total throughput is not limited to any single switches capacity. This always provides a single loop free path from one trunk cluster to the other or others. Multiple trunk clusters may be interconnected using point-to-point connections. A high throughput campus interconnect trunk cluster can be used to connect each building data center trunk cluster.

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