18650330. POWER AWARE PATH PLACEMENT FOR A NETWORK (Juniper Networks, Inc.)
POWER AWARE PATH PLACEMENT FOR A NETWORK
Organization Name
Inventor(s)
Jonathan C. Barth of Collegeville PA US
Vishnu Pavan Kumar Beeram of Hyderabad IN
Srihari Ramachandra Sangli of Bengaluru IN
Sudharsana Venkataraman of Brampton CA
POWER AWARE PATH PLACEMENT FOR A NETWORK
This abstract first appeared for US patent application 18650330 titled 'POWER AWARE PATH PLACEMENT FOR A NETWORK
Original Abstract Submitted
A first network device may determine a power group associating a plurality of ports of the first network device with a processing component of the first network device, and may advertise the power group to a second network device. The first network device may utilize the power group with a path placement strategy to compute a path to the second network device, and may determine a traffic load associated with the first network device. The first network device may disable the plurality of ports and the processing component based on the path and the traffic load.
