Fujitsu Corporation

Masahiko Iwakiri

Kazuhiro Uchida

Masamichi Kasa

Shinichi Shiwachi

Michihiko Goto

Manabu Tomiyasu

A packet forwarding device reads each packet from a common buffer at a predetermined band velocity and transfers the readout packet; detects passage of a re-transmission request packet requesting re-transmission of a packet having been transmitted, from a receiving terminal to a packet transmission source; and limits a writing band of writing a packet transmitted from the packet transmission source terminal, which is a receiving terminal to which the re-transmission request packet is destined, into the common buffer when the re-transmission request packet is detected.

Packet forwarding device

A communication device capable of restraining the packet transmission efficiency from lowering. An address storing unit extracts, from uplink packets, the addresses of terminals connected to sub-units and registers the addresses in an address management table. An address extracting unit extracts the address of a destination terminal included in a downlink packet output from a layer 2 switch, and an address determining unit determines whether or not the address of the destination terminal is registered in the address management table. In accordance with the result of the determination, a packet output unit outputs the downlink packet to a corresponding coupler.

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Fukuoka, Japan

Masahiko Iwakiri