Patent ID: 11929931
Assignee: MARVELL ISRAEL (M.I.S.L) LTD.
Field: Digital communication (Electrical engineering)
Classification: CPC H | IPC H

Claim 7:
8. The network device of claim 1, wherein:
the one or more ports comprises multiple ports;
the external packet memory is a first external packet memory among a plurality of external packet memories coupled to respective ports among the multiple ports; and
the packet processor is further configured to:
select ports from among the second subset of multiple ports to which groups of multiple packets in the plurality of queues in the internal packet memory are to be forwarded to transfer the groups of multiple packets to the plurality of external memories, and
forward the groups of multiple packets to the selected ports among the multiple ports to transfer the groups of multiple packets to the plurality of external memories so that queues among the plurality of queues are stored across the internal packet memory and ones of the external packet memories.