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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Mar. 16, 2010
Filed:
Mar. 30, 2007
Nitin Kumar, Fremont, CA (US);
Fritz Budiyanto, Sunnyvale, CA (US);
Nitin Kumar, Fremont, CA (US);
Fritz Budiyanto, Sunnyvale, CA (US);
Juniper Networks, Inc., Sunnyvale, CA (US);
Abstract
A method may include receiving a packet associated with a flow of packets, the packet including a destination address; selecting one of a plurality of memory banks, the selected memory bank being associated with the flow of packets, wherein each of the plurality of memory banks stores the same next-hop information for forwarding the packet to the destination address; accessing, in the selected memory bank, the next-hop information for forwarding the packet to the destination address; and forwarding the packet to the destination address based on the next-hop information.