Nortel Networks Corporation

Dan Sullivan

Heather D Achilles

Paul S Gallo

Terry Pearson

Tom Colley

Kevin Klapper

Bill Miller

A method, apparatus and article of manufacture for routing a data packet in a fault tolerant manner. A data packet is received from an incoming data channel and is transferred to a switching engine (SE) through an access processor engine (APE). A route for the data packet is generated using a central processor resource (CPR). The data packet is transferred from the SE to an outgoing trunk physical module (TP) using the route.

Method and apparatus for a fault tolerant router architecture

A method, apparatus and article of manufacture for prioritization of control plane traffic in a router. A destination slot is allocated in a sliding window buffer via a control channel. A data packet is received via a data channel. An acknowledgement that the data packet was received is sent via the control channel. The destination slot is released via the control channel.

Method and apparatus for the prioritization of control plane traffic in a router

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