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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Sep. 03, 2019
Filed:
Jun. 12, 2012
James Graham Fountain, Lytham St. Anne's, GB;
Rania Hamdi Eissa, Preston, GB;
Peter Noble Hudson, Ashton-on-Ribble, GB;
James Graham Fountain, Lytham St. Anne's, GB;
Rania Hamdi Eissa, Preston, GB;
Peter Noble Hudson, Ashton-on-Ribble, GB;
BAE Systems plc, London, GB;
Abstract
A data transfer method and system includes at least one switch device () configured, in use, to transfer data, directly or indirectly, between a plurality of computing devices (). The at least one switch device is configured to provide a plurality of Virtual Local Area Networks (VLAN), each said VLAN being configured as a Virtual Channel (VC) by receiving data from a said computing device designated as a sole source of data over the VC. The VC data is transmitted from the sole source computing device as Ethernet frames () tagged with a VLAN tag (). The VCs are routed through the at least one switch device according to a VLAN Id field of the VLAN tag of a said frame, with fixed and pre-determined routing of the frame being determined by configuration of the at least one switch device.