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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
May. 19, 2009
Filed:
Apr. 08, 2005
Bradley Venables, Nepean, CA;
David Stuart, Almonte, CA;
Graham Thomsen, Kanata, CA;
Hamid Assarpour, Arlington, MA (US);
Bradley Venables, Nepean, CA;
David Stuart, Almonte, CA;
Graham Thomsen, Kanata, CA;
Hamid Assarpour, Arlington, MA (US);
Nortel Networks Limited, St. Laurent, Quebec, CA;
Abstract
Improved systems and methods for processing data traveling in a network in an efficient manner are provided. In many network implementations input/output ports have one or a small number of bandwidths. These ports sometimes lead to higher bandwidth ports than the source or destination needs. A method and system are provided wherein some of the input and output ports are known to be underutilized. Only a relatively small number of output ports require a complicated merge scheduler that provides configurable data transmission 'fairness' between input ports. Accordingly, a method and system are provided wherein preprocessing of input data reduces the cost of the merge circuits required at the outputs.