Patent ID: 11936570
Assignee: XSIGHT LABS LTD.
Field: Digital communication (Electrical engineering)
Classification: CPC H | IPC H

Claim 14:
15. A method, comprising
receiving a traffic element by an ingress first tier switching element of a modular switch that comprises first tier switching elements that comprise input output (IO) ports, second tier switching elements that are coupled to the first tier switching elements in a non-blocking manner;
performing, by the ingress first tier switching element, substantially all egress processing of the traffic element;
performing, by the ingress first tier switching element, traffic management of the traffic element; wherein the traffic management comprises load balancing, and traffic shaping; wherein the traffic management is based, at least in part, on the status information of shared memory resources provided by the second tier switching elements;
sending the traffic element and queuing information related to the traffic element to a second tier switching element, when the traffic shaping allows sending the traffic element to the second tier switching element;
queuing the traffic element in a queue of the second tier switching element; wherein the queuing is responsive to the queuing information;
dequeuing the traffic element from the queue of the second tier switching element;
sending the traffic element to an egress first tier switching element;
performing, by the egress first tier switching element, flow-based reordering;
performing egress processing by at least one of the egress first tier switching element and the ingress first tier switching element; and
outputting the traffic element from the modular switch.