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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
May. 18, 1999
Filed:
Apr. 18, 1997
Pradeep S Sindhu, Mountain View, CA (US);
Ramalingam K Anand, San Jose, CA (US);
Dennis C Ferguson, Mountain View, CA (US);
Bjorn O Liencres, Palo Alto, CA (US);
Juniper Networks, Santa Clara, CA (US);
Abstract
A router for switching a data packet between a source and destination in a network including a plurality of input ports each including a data handler. The data handler divides a data packet into one or more fixed length cells. The router includes a plurality of output ports at least one of which is for routing the data packet to the destination and a memory divided into a plurality of memory banks. A input switch receives fixed length cells from the input ports and writes a single cell in a cell slot time span to each memory bank. An output switch routes cells received from the memory to an appropriate output port.