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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Jun. 05, 2012
Filed:
Mar. 04, 2008
Nelson Willhite, Sunnyvale, CA (US);
Mike Noll, San Jose, CA (US);
Robert Steven Martin, Los Gatos, CA (US);
Akhil Duggal, Los Altos, CA (US);
Craig Lindberg, Nevada City, CA (US);
Thomas Carleton Jones, San Jose, CA (US);
Srinivas Komidi, San Jose, CA (US);
Nelson Willhite, Sunnyvale, CA (US);
Mike Noll, San Jose, CA (US);
Robert Steven Martin, Los Gatos, CA (US);
Akhil Duggal, Los Altos, CA (US);
Craig Lindberg, Nevada City, CA (US);
Thomas Carleton Jones, San Jose, CA (US);
Srinivas Komidi, San Jose, CA (US);
Alcatel Lucent, Paris, FR;
Abstract
Network data switching includes receiving a cell; associating the cell with a destination port; selecting, based at least in part on a mapping of a plurality of output ports and a plurality of egress links, a selected egress link that has been soft configured to be associated with the destination port, wherein each of the plurality of egress links is configured to send data from a switch fabric to a corresponding access node; and switching the cell to the selected egress link.