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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
May. 01, 2007
Filed:
Jul. 06, 2001
Jung-hong Kao, Los Altos, CA (US);
Necdet Uzun, Los Gatos, CA (US);
Jung-Hong Kao, Los Altos, CA (US);
Necdet Uzun, Los Gatos, CA (US);
Cisco Technology, Inc., San Jose, CA (US);
Abstract
A method and apparatus for servicing transmit traffic in a node of a network where the network includes a plurality of nodes connected by first and second rings formed by two or more transmission media. The method includes receiving transit delay data associated with a plurality of downstream nodes, receiving a packet for routing to a destination node in the network and routing the packet to one of the first and second rings not only based on a shortest path to the destination node but also on a transmit latency for both the first and second rings in view of the received transit delay data.