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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Feb. 21, 2006
Filed:
Nov. 30, 2000
Michael K. Eneboe, San Jose, CA (US);
Andrew D. Hospodor, Los Gatos, CA (US);
Michael K. Eneboe, San Jose, CA (US);
Andrew D. Hospodor, Los Gatos, CA (US);
Western Digital Ventures, Inc., Lake Forest, CA (US);
Abstract
An isochronous switched fabric network is disclosed comprising a plurality of interconnected switched nodes forming multiple dimensions, each switched node comprising an upstream port and a downstream port for each dimension, each upstream and downstream port comprising an input port and an output port. A discovery facility discovers a depth of each dimension, and discovers resources within each switched node. An addressing facility assigns a matrix address to each switched node, a resource reservation facility reserves resources within each switched node to establish a path through the switched fabric network for transmitting an isochronous data stream, and a scheduling facility schedules isochronous data transmitted through the switched fabric network.