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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
May. 27, 2008
Filed:
Apr. 11, 2002
Trevor Elbourne, Subiaco, AU;
Mike Reynolds, Subiaco, AU;
Todd B. Lowpensky, Hillsborough, CA (US);
Network Equipment Technologies, Inc., Fremont, CA (US);
Abstract
A method and apparatus are provided for providing multiple qualities of service to different virtual network connections. In one example, the method receives a token of a cell descriptor of data traffic of a virtual network connection. It is determined whether the token is in conformance with contracted bandwidth parameters of the cell descriptor to obtain a conformance status. Based on the conformance status, one of the following steps is performed: the token is inserted into a first random access memory configured to store the token for immediate output, or the token is inserted into a second random access memory configured to store the token for non-immediate output.