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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Aug. 31, 2010
Filed:
Nov. 22, 2005
Applicant:
Masayuki Shinohara, Tokyo, JP;
Inventor:
Masayuki Shinohara, Tokyo, JP;
Assignee:
Juniper Networks, Inc., Sunnyvale, CA (US);
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Assistant Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
H04L 12/56 (2006.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
Abstract
Arbitration is performed in a packet exchanger. In one implementation, a device for performing the arbitration may include input ports configured to each receive sequences that define a packet and output ports. A packet switch concurrently process multiple ones of the received sequences to select an output port for each of the received sequences, the packet switch transferring the received sequences to the selected output ports for output from the device at different times from one another.