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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Jul. 01, 2008
Filed:
Jun. 04, 2003
Gregory S. Mathews, Santa Clara, CA (US);
Eric Anderson, Palo Alto, CA (US);
Philip Ferolito, Sunnyvale, CA (US);
Mike Morrison, Sunnyvale, CA (US);
Gregory S. Mathews, Santa Clara, CA (US);
Eric Anderson, Palo Alto, CA (US);
Philip Ferolito, Sunnyvale, CA (US);
Mike Morrison, Sunnyvale, CA (US);
Lucent Technologies Inc., Murray Hill, NJ (US);
Abstract
A system for efficiently reassembling packets from cells received on independent switching fabrics according to a serial high speed interface (HSI) protocol. The system includes redundancy in that fabrics may be removed by skipping the fabrics in striping and reassembly sequences. When fabrics are added, the fabrics are included in the striping and reassembly sequences. The system is efficient due in part to in-order transmission of cells serially across multiple fabrics. Full fabric bandwidth is thereby utilized without reordering overhead. Since packets are striped across all available fabrics, load is balanced across the fabrics.