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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Oct. 08, 2013
Filed:
Jul. 05, 2011
Applicant:
Jack Regula, Chapel Hill, NC (US);
Inventor:
Jack Regula, Chapel Hill, NC (US);
Assignee:
PLX Technology, Inc., Sunnyvale, CA (US);
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Assistant Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
H04L 12/00 (2006.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
Abstract
In a first embodiment of the present invention, a non-blocking switch fabric is provided comprising: a first set of intra-domain switches; a second set of intra-domain switches; a set of inter-domain switches located centrally between the first set of intra-domain switches and the second set of intra-domain switches, wherein each of the ports of each of the inter-domain switches is connected to an intra-domain switch from the first or second set of intra-domain switches.