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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Mar. 02, 2010
Filed:
Nov. 21, 2003
Jack C. Wybenga, Plano, TX (US);
Patricia Kay Sturm, McKinney, TX (US);
Gary Russell Chesnut, Granbury, TX (US);
Jack C. Wybenga, Plano, TX (US);
Patricia Kay Sturm, McKinney, TX (US);
Gary Russell Chesnut, Granbury, TX (US);
Samsung Electronics Co., Ltd., Suwon-si, KR;
Abstract
A router comprising: i) a switch fabric; and ii) N Layermodules coupled by the switch fabric, each of the N Layermodules capable of receiving data packets in Layerframes and forwarding the received data packets using Layeraddresses associated with the Layerframes, wherein a first one of the Layermodules comprises a Layerrouting engine capable of forwarding a first received data packet through the switch fabric directly to a second one of the Layermodules using a Layeraddress associated with the first received data packet if the first Layermodule does not recognize a Layeraddress associated with the first received data packet.