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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Jul. 18, 2006
Filed:
Apr. 27, 2000
Adam Goldstein, Santa Clara, CA (US);
David Smith, Union City, CA (US);
Harish Devanagondi, Saratoga, CA (US);
Hugh Barrass, Milpitas, CA (US);
Kamran Torabi, Sunnyvale, CA (US);
Rajesh Patil, Santa Clara, CA (US);
Adam Goldstein, Santa Clara, CA (US);
David Smith, Union City, CA (US);
Harish Devanagondi, Saratoga, CA (US);
Hugh Barrass, Milpitas, CA (US);
Kamran Torabi, Sunnyvale, CA (US);
Rajesh Patil, Santa Clara, CA (US);
Cisco Technology, Inc., San Jose, CA (US);
Abstract
A network switch having a hybrid switch architecture, which is scalable to increase connectivity, buffering, and bandwidth by using multiple shared-memory switch fabrics and multiple crossbar switch fabrics. Each of the crossbar switch fabrics is coupled to each of the shared-memory switch fabrics. The shared-memory switch fabrics are configured to store and retrieve packets. The crossbar switch fabrics are configured to distribute and re-collect packets to and from each of the shared-memory switch fabrics. The network switch having a hybrid switch architecture distributes packets from a crossbar switch fabric to the multiple shared-memory switch fabrics to share the distributed packets among the multiple shared-memory switch fabrics.