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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Apr. 14, 2009
Filed:
Dec. 05, 2003
Ashutosh Agrawal, Rohnert Park, CA (US);
Arthur G. Enyedy, Petaluma, CA (US);
Eric Arthur Holmberg, Sausalito, CA (US);
Prashant Jain, Rohnert Park, CA (US);
Ashutosh Agrawal, Rohnert Park, CA (US);
Arthur G. Enyedy, Petaluma, CA (US);
Eric Arthur Holmberg, Sausalito, CA (US);
Prashant Jain, Rohnert Park, CA (US);
Mahi Networks, Inc., Petaluma, CA (US);
Abstract
A non-blocking switching architecture having a fabric that is capable of switching on two levels by formatting signals crossing the switching fabric as 'microcells' having a predetermined format. The microcells are routed by the switching fabric from an ingress line card to destination devices that can include egress line cards and/or processing resources. The processing resources can reformat the signals carried by the microcells to a second format. The reformatted signals can then be packaged as microcells and routed to a selected processing resource to provide switching in the second format. The processing resources transform the switched signals in the second format to a signal in the original format, which is carried by the switching fabric as microcells to an egress line card.