Terabit per second ATM packet switch having distributed out-of-b

Details Terabit per second ATM packet switch having distributed out-of-b Terabit per second ATM packet switch having distributed out-of-b

1994-12-30

1997-06-24

Ton, Dang

Multiplex communications

Pathfinding or routing

Switching a message which includes an address header

370427, H04L 1256

Patent

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056423497

ABSTRACT:
An out-of-band controller for a large packet switch which is distributed throughout partitions or pipes of the packet switch. Thus, the out-of-band controller is divided into multiple pipe controllers. These pipe controllers are connected and operated in a ring such that each pipe controller is with a respective fraction of the input path requests for packets. The requests are processed concurrently and any request that is not fulfilled in one pipe controller is offered to up to three subsequent pipe controllers to hunt a path for the awaiting packets. The controller, by using up to four levels of parallelism, can hunt paths and set up connections for 256 or more input ATM packet lines, thus providing a throughput of 1 terabit per second or more. By distributing the controller both tremendous aggregate switching speeds may be attained without resort to exotic semiconductor technologies.

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