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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Jun. 03, 2008
Filed:
Jun. 20, 2002
Peter M. Barnes, Mountain View, CA (US);
Nikhil Jayaram, Los Altos, CA (US);
Anthony J. LI, San Mateo, CA (US);
William L. Lynch, Redwood City, CA (US);
Sharad Mehrotra, San Jose, CA (US);
Peter M. Barnes, Mountain View, CA (US);
Nikhil Jayaram, Los Altos, CA (US);
Anthony J. Li, San Mateo, CA (US);
William L. Lynch, Redwood City, CA (US);
Sharad Mehrotra, San Jose, CA (US);
Cisco Technology, Inc., San Jose, CA (US);
Abstract
A method for routing and switching data packets from one or more incoming links to one or more outgoing links of a router. The method comprises receiving a data packet from the incoming link, assigning at least one outgoing link to the data packet based on the destination address of the data packet, and after the assigning operation, storing the data packet in a switching memory based on the assigned outgoing link. The data packet extracted from the switching memory, and transmitted along the assigned outgoing link. The router may include a network processing unit having one or more systolic array pipelines for performing the assigning operation.