Andrea Baldini from Los Gatos, CA

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Andrea Baldini

About:

Born:

1985

Work:

Baldini won the silver medal at the foil 2006 World Fencing Championships after he lost the final 15-14 versus Peter Joppich....

Education:

On July 2010, he won two gold medals at the 2010 European Fencing Championships in Leipzig..

Skills & Activities:

Sport:

Olympic fencer of Italy

Award:

Olympic gold medalist for Italy • Olympic medalist in fencing • Medalist at the 2012 Summer Olympics • Medals

Us Patents

Methods And Devices For Backward Congestion Notification
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US Patent:

7961621, Jun 14, 2011
Filed:

Oct 11, 2005
Appl. No.:

11/248933
Inventors:

Davide Bergamasco - Sunnyvale CA, US
Andrea Baldini - San Francisco CA, US
Valentina Alaria - San Francisco CA, US
Flavio Bonomi - Palo Alto CA, US
Rong Pan - Sunnyvale CA, US
Assignee:

Cisco Technology, Inc. - San Jose CA
International Classification:

H04J 3/14
US Classification:

370236
Abstract:

The present invention provides improved methods and devices for managing network congestion. Preferred implementations of the invention allow congestion to be pushed from congestion points in the core of a network to reaction points, which may be edge devices, host devices or components thereof. Preferably, rate limiters shape individual flows of the reaction points that are causing congestion. Parameters of these rate limiters are preferably tuned based on feedback from congestion points, e. g. , in the form of backward congestion notification (“BCN”) messages. In some implementations, such BCN messages include congestion change information and at least one instantaneous measure of congestion. The instantaneous measure(s) of congestion may be relative to a threshold of a particular queue and/or relative to a threshold of a buffer that includes a plurality of queues.

Fibre Channel Over Ethernet
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US Patent:

8238347, Aug 7, 2012
Filed:

Apr 6, 2006
Appl. No.:

11/400671
Inventors:

Claudio DeSanti - Kensington CA, US
Silvano Gai - San Jose CA, US
Andrea Baldini - San Francisco CA, US
Assignee:

Cisco Technology, Inc. - San Jose CA
International Classification:

H04L 12/28
H04L 12/56
H04J 3/16
H04J 3/22
US Classification:

3703955, 37039553, 370401, 370402, 370466, 370467
Abstract:

A Data Center Ethernet (“DCE”) network and related methods and device are provided. A DCE network simplifies the connectivity of data centers and provides a high bandwidth, low latency network for carrying Ethernet, storage and other traffic. A Fiber Channel (“FC”) frame, including FC addressing information, is encapsulated in an Ethernet frame for transmission on a Data Center Ethernet (“DCE”) network. The Ethernet address fields may indicate that the frame includes an FC frame, e. g. , by the use of a predetermined Organization Unique Identifier (“OUI”) code in the D_MAC field, but also include Ethernet addressing information. Accordingly, the encapsulated frames can be forwarded properly by switches in the DCE network whether or not these switches are configured for operation according to the FC protocol. Accordingly, only a subset of Ethernet switches in the DCE network needs to be FC-enabled. Only switches so configured will require an FC Domain_ID.

Active Queue Management Methods And Devices
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US Patent:

20060171318, Aug 3, 2006
Filed:

Jun 16, 2005
Appl. No.:

11/155388
Inventors:

Davide Bergamasco - Sunnyvale CA, US
Flavio Bonomi - Palo Alto CA, US
Valentina Alaria - San Francisco CA, US
Andrea Baldini - San Francisco CA, US
Assignee:

Cisco Technology, Inc. - San Jose CA
International Classification:

H04J 1/16
H04L 12/56
US Classification:

370235000, 370412000
Abstract:

Novel methods and devices are provided for AQM of input-buffered network devices. Preferred implementations of the invention control overall buffer occupancy while protecting uncongested individual VOQs. The probability of setting a “global drop flag” (which is not necessarily used to trigger packet drops, but may also be used to trigger other AQM responses) may depend, at least in part, on the lesser of a running average of buffer occupancy and instantaneous buffer occupancy. In some preferred embodiments, this probability also depends on the number of active VOQs. Moreover, a global drop flag is set in conjunction with a drop threshold M associated with the VOQs. Whether an AQM response is made may depend on whether a global drop flag has been set and whether a destination VOQ contains M or more packets. Different M values may be established for different classes of traffic, e.g., with higher M values for higher-priority traffic. AQM responses (e.g., to drop packets) may be taken more aggressively when there is a larger number of active VOQs.

Methods And Devices For Backward Congestion Notification
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US Patent:

20110273983, Nov 10, 2011
Filed:

May 5, 2011
Appl. No.:

13/101870
Inventors:

Davide Bergamasco - Sunnyvale CA, US
Andrea Baldini - San Francisco CA, US
Valentina Alaria - San Francisco CA, US
Flavio Bonomi - Palo Alto CA, US
Rong Pan - Sunnyvale CA, US
Assignee:

CISCO TECHNOLOGY, INC. - San Jose CA
International Classification:

H04L 12/26
US Classification:

370232, 370236
Abstract:

The present invention provides improved methods and devices for managing network congestion. Preferred implementations of the invention allow congestion to be pushed from congestion points in the core of a network to reaction points, which may be edge devices, host devices or components thereof. Preferably, rate limiters shape individual flows of the reaction points that are causing congestion. Parameters of these rate limiters are preferably tuned based on feedback from congestion points, e.g., in the form of backward congestion notification (“BCN”) messages. In some implementations, such BCN messages include congestion change information and at least one instantaneous measure of congestion. The instantaneous measure(s) of congestion may be relative to a threshold of a particular queue and/or relative to a threshold of a buffer that includes a plurality of queues.

Methods And Devices For Backward Congestion Notification
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US Patent:

20150124619, May 7, 2015
Filed:

Jun 13, 2014
Appl. No.:

14/304676
Inventors:

- San Jose CA, US
Andrea BALDINI - San Francisco CA, US
Valentina ALARIA - San Francisco CA, US
Flavio BONOMI - Palo Alto CA, US
Rong PAN - Sunnyvale CA, US
International Classification:

H04L 12/26
H04L 12/835
H04L 12/825
H04L 12/801
US Classification:

370236, 370252
Abstract:

The present invention provides improved methods and devices for managing network congestion. Preferred implementations of the invention allow congestion to be pushed from congestion points in the core of a network to reaction points, which may be edge devices, host devices or components thereof. Preferably, rate limiters shape individual flows of the reaction points that are causing congestion. Parameters of these rate limiters are preferably tuned based on feedback from congestion points, e.g., in the form of backward congestion notification (“BCN”) messages. In some implementations, such BCN messages include congestion change information and at least one instantaneous measure of congestion. The instantaneous measure(s) of congestion may be relative to a threshold of a particular queue and/or relative to a threshold of a buffer that includes a plurality of queues.