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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Jul. 28, 2015
Filed:
Aug. 31, 2012
Peter M. Barnes, Mountain View, CA (US);
Nikhil Jayaram, Los Altos, CA (US);
Anthony J. LI, Los Altos, CA (US);
William L. Lynch, La Honda, CA (US);
Sharad Mehrotra, San Jose, CA (US);
Peter M. Barnes, Mountain View, CA (US);
Nikhil Jayaram, Los Altos, CA (US);
Anthony J. Li, Los Altos, CA (US);
William L. Lynch, La Honda, CA (US);
Sharad Mehrotra, San Jose, CA (US);
Cisco Technology, Inc., San Jose, CA (US);
Abstract
A network device routes data packets by storing the packets in a switching memory as a function of a destination address of the packet. The switching memory comprises switching memory queues that are mapped to ports of the device. A header of a received packet is examined to determine the network destination address to which it is to be routed, and a destination queue is assigned to the packet based on the destination address. Thereafter, the packet is divided into cells, and the cells are written to contiguous locations in the destination queue.