Juniper Networks, Inc.

Wing Leong Poon

David James Ofelt

Jean-Marc Frailong

Srihari Raju Vegesna

Sarin Thomas

Aibing Zhou

Xianzhi Li

Venkatraman Chandrasekaran

Hongsheng Ping

A network device includes a receiver component that generates flow control information. The network device also includes a transmitter component that receives a packet for forwarding to the receiver component, receives flow control data for the packet from the receiver component, and provides the packet and the flow control data for the packet to a fabric component. The fabric component performs a congestion management operation for the packet, and forwards the packet to the receiver component based on the flow control data and results of the congestion management operation.

Oversubscribed packet stream-based interconnect protocol

A method includes receiving packets from a network with a plurality of packet-forwarding engines (PFEs) of a router, wherein the plurality of PFEs are interconnected by a switch fabric, determining an egress one of the PFEs for each of the packets, and forming fixed-sized fabric cells that share data associated with the packets that are destined for the same egress PFE while preventing packets destined for different egress PFEs to share any of the fabric cells. The fabric cells are transmitted through the switch fabric to communicate the packets to the egress PFEs.

Cell sharing to improve throughput within a network device

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Sunnyvale, CA, United States of America

Wing Leong Poon