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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Jan. 13, 2004
Filed:
Nov. 09, 1999
Joris Johannes Maria Wils, Acton, MA (US);
Benny Siman-Tov, Framingham, MA (US);
Kenneth Gerard Descoteaux, Stow, MA (US);
3Com Corporation, Santa Clara, CA (US);
Abstract
A plurality of Buffer Management (BM) modules or chips communicate through each other through an interconnect. The BM modules receive packets from other parts of the network or external circuitry. These incoming packets are stored in an ingress pool. Data packets that a BM module receives from the interconnect are stored in a egress pool. The BM module takes the packets from the ingress pool and sends the packets across the interconnect to one of the other BM modules through the interconnect. A BM module receives the packet from the interconnect and stores it in an egress pool. The BM module takes packets from the egress pool and transmits it to a another part of the network or associated circuitry.