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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Jul. 07, 2009
Filed:
May. 08, 2003
Jack C. Wybenga, Plano, TX (US);
Pradeep Samudra, Plano, TX (US);
Patricia K. Sturm, Dallas, TX (US);
Jack C. Wybenga, Plano, TX (US);
Pradeep Samudra, Plano, TX (US);
Patricia K. Sturm, Dallas, TX (US);
Samsung Electronics Co., Ltd., Suwon-si, KR;
Abstract
A router for transmitting data packets to and receiving data packets from N interfacing peripheral devices. The router comprises a first packet processor that receives a first data packet from a physical medium device (PMD) module coupled to one of the N interfacing peripheral device and determines if a format of the first data packet is one of IPv4, IPv6 and MPLS. The first packet processor determines a destination device of the first data packet by looking up the destination device in a unified forwarding table containing destination devices for data packets in IPv4 format, IPv6 format, and MPLS format.