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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Feb. 04, 2014
Filed:
Sep. 07, 2010
Gil Bloch, Zichron Yaakov, IL;
Diego Crupnicoff, Buenos Aires, AR;
Michael Kagan, Zichron Yaakov, IL;
Ido Bukspan, Herzliya, IL;
Alon Webman, Tel Aviv, IL;
Itamar Rabenstein, Petach Tikva, IL;
Gil Bloch, Zichron Yaakov, IL;
Diego Crupnicoff, Buenos Aires, AR;
Michael Kagan, Zichron Yaakov, IL;
Ido Bukspan, Herzliya, IL;
Alon Webman, Tel Aviv, IL;
Itamar Rabenstein, Petach Tikva, IL;
Mellanox Technologies Ltd., Yokneam, IL;
Abstract
A communication apparatus includes a plurality of switch ports, each switch port including one or more port buffers for buffering data that traverses the switch port. A switch fabric is coupled to transfer the data between the switch ports. A switch control unit is configured to reassign at least one port buffer of a given switch port to buffer a part of the data that does not enter or exit the apparatus via the given switch port, and to cause the switch fabric to forward the part of the data to a destination switch port via the at least one reassigned port buffer.