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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Aug. 13, 2013
Filed:
Apr. 05, 2010
Wing Leong Poon, Sunnyvale, CA (US);
Venkatraman Chandrasekaran, Cupertino, CA (US);
Srihari Vegesna, San Jose, CA (US);
Sarin Thomas, Sunnyvale, CA (US);
David J. Ofelt, Los Gatos, CA (US);
Wing Leong Poon, Sunnyvale, CA (US);
Venkatraman Chandrasekaran, Cupertino, CA (US);
Srihari Vegesna, San Jose, CA (US);
Sarin Thomas, Sunnyvale, CA (US);
David J. Ofelt, Los Gatos, CA (US);
Juniper Networks, Inc., Sunnyvale, CA (US);
Abstract
A method includes receiving packets from a network with a plurality of packet-forwarding engines (PFEs) of a router, wherein the plurality of PFEs are interconnected by a switch fabric, determining an egress one of the PFEs for each of the packets, and forming fixed-sized fabric cells that share data associated with the packets that are destined for the same egress PFE while preventing packets destined for different egress PFEs to share any of the fabric cells. The fabric cells are transmitted through the switch fabric to communicate the packets to the egress PFEs.