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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Mar. 27, 2007
Filed:
Mar. 08, 2002
Gottfried A. Goldrian, Boeblingen, DE;
Bernd Leppla, Buchen-Boedigheim, DE;
Norbert Schumacher, Neuhausen, DE;
Francois Abel, Rueschlikon, CH;
Ronald P. Luijten, Horgen, CH;
Gottfried A. Goldrian, Boeblingen, DE;
Bernd Leppla, Buchen-Boedigheim, DE;
Norbert Schumacher, Neuhausen, DE;
Francois Abel, Rueschlikon, CH;
Ronald P. Luijten, Horgen, CH;
International Business Machines Corporation, Armonk, NY (US);
Abstract
The present invention relates to switching technology in computer networks and in particular to a method and system for switching information packets through a m input, n output device. According to the invention it is proposed to temporarily buffer said packets according to a new, self-explanatory, preferred a linear addressing scheme in which a respective buffer location of consecutive stream packets results from a respective self-explanatory, or linear, respectively, incrementation of a buffer pointer. Preferably, a matrix of FIFO storage elements () having an input and an output crossbar can be used for implementing input/output paralleling modes (ILP,OLP) and multiple lanes and achieving address input/output scaling up to a single cycle.