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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Nov. 19, 2002
Filed:
Mar. 02, 1999
Applicant:
Inventors:
Chung-Ju Chang, Hsinchu, TW;
Huai-Chih Ma, Hsinchu, TW;
Chih-Sheng Chang, Hsinchu, TW;
Jiunn-Bin Chen, Hsinchu, TW;
Assignee:
Accton Technology Corporation, Hsinchu, TW;
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Assistant Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
H04L 1/256 ;
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
H04L 1/256 ;
Abstract
The present invention is to provide an Ethernet switch fabric controller requiring output port buffer unit of less capacity while still working with an Ethernet switch to smoothly forward the packet from each input port of the Ethernet switch to an output port corresponding to the packet header at the input port. It is featured by the use of proper number of temporary buffer units each of proper length, and output port buffer unit of proper length.