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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Oct. 27, 2015
Filed:
Mar. 14, 2013
Alcatel-lucent Usa Inc., Murray Hill, NJ (US);
Steven J. Fortune, Summit, NJ (US);
Spyridon Antonakopoulos, New Providence, NJ (US);
Hubert Rae McLellan, Jr., Summit, NJ (US);
Yihao Zhang, Chatham, NJ (US);
Alcatel Lucent, Boulogne-Billancourt, FR;
Abstract
A network device of a communication network is configured to implement a switch fabric that includes collector-based cell reordering functionality. In one embodiment, the switch fabric comprises a plurality of distributors, a plurality of routing elements each having inputs coupled to respective outputs of multiple ones of the distributors, and a plurality of collectors each having inputs coupled to respective outputs of multiple ones of the routing elements. At least a given one of the collectors comprises a sorting circuit configured to reorder streams of cells received from respective ones of the routing elements into a single reordered stream of cells utilizing a merge sort.