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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Jan. 09, 2007
Filed:
Dec. 10, 2001
Rahul Saxena, Sunnyvale, CA (US);
Rahul Saxena, Sunnyvale, CA (US);
Intel Corporation, Santa Clara, CA (US);
Abstract
A switch and a process of operating a switch are described where a received data frame is stored into memory in a systematic way. In other words, a location is selected in the memory to store the received data frame using a non-random method. By storing the received data frame in this way, switches that employ this system and method increase bandwidth by avoiding delays incurred in randomly guessing at vacant spaces in the memory. The received data frame is stored until a port that is to transmit the received data frame is available. Throughput is further improved by allowing the received data frames to be stored in either contiguous or non-contiguous memory locations.