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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Oct. 16, 2007
Filed:
Jul. 31, 2002
Rodney N. Mullendore, San Jose, CA (US);
Stuart F. Oberman, Sunnyvale, CA (US);
Anil Mehta, Milpitas, CA (US);
Keith Schakel, San Jose, CA (US);
Kamran Malik, San Jose, CA (US);
Rodney N. Mullendore, San Jose, CA (US);
Stuart F. Oberman, Sunnyvale, CA (US);
Anil Mehta, Milpitas, CA (US);
Keith Schakel, San Jose, CA (US);
Kamran Malik, San Jose, CA (US);
Nishan Systems, Inc., Broomfield, CO (US);
Abstract
A system and method for managing the allocation of Time Division Multiplexing (TDM) timeslots in a network switch. The network switch may use a TDM cycle comprising multiple timeslots to manage shared resources and to schedule data ingress and egress through the ports of the current configuration, wherein each port is assigned one or more timeslots. The network switch may be reprogrammed to support one of multiple timeslot assignment schemes for one of multiple port configurations. The network switch may support configurations with varying numbers of ports, e.g. 8- and 16-port configurations. A network switch may also support configurations where two or more ports are combined to form one port, for example, a 2 Gbs Fibre Channel port. To meet the requirements of the various configurations, the timeslot assignment scheme may be reprogrammed to meet the scheduling requirements of each of the possible port configurations.