Invention Grant
- Patent Title: Network switch having a hybrid switch architecture
- Patent Title (中): 具有混合交换机架构的网络交换机
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Application No.: US11365214Application Date: 2006-02-28
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Publication No.: US07680097B1Publication Date: 2010-03-16
- Inventor: Adam Goldstein , David Smith , Harish Devanagondi , Hugh Barrass , Kamran Torabi , Rajesh Patil
- Applicant: Adam Goldstein , David Smith , Harish Devanagondi , Hugh Barrass , Kamran Torabi , Rajesh Patil
- Applicant Address: US CA San Jose
- Assignee: Cisco Technology, Inc.
- Current Assignee: Cisco Technology, Inc.
- Current Assignee Address: US CA San Jose
- Agency: Schwegman, Lundberg & Woessner, P.A.
- Main IPC: H04J1/16
- IPC: H04J1/16
Abstract:
A network switch having a hybrid switch architecture, which is scalable to increase connectivity, buffering, and bandwidth by using multiple shared-memory switch fabrics and multiple crossbar switch fabrics. Each of the crossbar switch fabrics is coupled to each of the shared-memory switch fabrics. The shared-memory switch fabrics are configured to store and retrieve packets. The crossbar switch fabrics are configured to distribute and recollect packets to and from each of the shared-memory switch fabrics. The network switch having a hybrid switch architecture distributes packets from a crossbar switch fabric to the multiple shared-memory switch fabrics to share the distributed packets among the multiple shared-memory switch fabrics.
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