Hewlett-packard Development Company, L.p.

Maunte A Goodfellow

David J Law

Eugene O'Neill

Paul J Moran

Edele O'Malley

Kam Choi

Jerome Nolan

Bryan J Donoghue

Quang T Tran

A network stack includes a plurality of network units each of which includes a multiplicity of ports for receiving and forwarding addressed data packets, at least two cascade ports and a switching engine for forwarding received packets to at least one port in accordance with address data in the packets and a cascade connection including, for each of two opposite directions around the stack, at least one unidirectional path for data packets composed of links each between a respective cascade port on a network unit and a corresponding cascade port on the next network unit.

Cascade system for network units

Growing community of inventors

Dunstable, United Kingdom

Maunte A Goodfellow