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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Nov. 28, 2017
Filed:
Jan. 21, 2014
International Business Machines Corporation, Armonk, NY (US);
Claude Basso, Nice, FR;
Nikolaos Chrysos, Thalwil, CH;
Cyriel J. Minkenberg, Gutenswil, CH;
Mark L. Rudquist, Rochester, MN (US);
David A. Shedivy, Rochester, MN (US);
Brian T. Vanderpool, Byron, MN (US);
INTERNATIONAL BUSINESS MACHINES CORPORATION, Armonk, NY (US);
Abstract
An approach is described for routing data to a plurality of output terminals via a integrated switch router including a crossbar switch having both a crossbar and a plurality of crossbar bypass lines. Whereas the crossbar may connect each input of the crossbar switch to each output of the crossbar switch, each of the plurality of crossbar bypass lines may connect a single input of the crossbar switch to a corresponding single output of the crossbar switch. According to such approach, a replicated copy of a multicast packet may be forwarded to an output terminal via a crossbar bypass line in parallel with other data forwarded via the crossbar, thus increasing integrated switch router bandwidth.