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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
May. 27, 1997
Filed:
Jul. 01, 1994
Applicant:
Inventors:
Michael Ben-Nun, Jerusalem, IL;
Simoni Ben-Michael, Givat Zeev, IL;
Simcha Perl, Jerusalem, IL;
Kadangode K Ramakrishnan, Maynard, MA (US);
Assignee:
Digital Equipment Corporation, Maynard, MA (US);
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Assistant Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
H04L / ; G06F / ;
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
370399 ; 370412 ; 395250 ;
Abstract
An Asynchronous Transfer Mode (ATM) network device having a receiver portion capable of receiving ATM cells on one of a number of virtual circuits (VCs) from an upstream ATM switch, a local memory used to store the ATM cells, a management system to manage the local memory using a number of queues, a system for assembling ATM cells into packets, a system for transmitting the packets to a host memory, and a transmitter portion having a system for indicating the transmitting of packets to the host memory to the upstream ATM switch.