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

Claim 7:
8. A method, comprising
receiving traffic by 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 first tier switching elements, traffic management of traffic;
preforming, by the first tier switches, substantially all egress processing and ingress processing of the traffic; wherein the traffic management comprises load balancing, traffic shaping and flow-based reordering;
providing, by the second tier switching elements, a shared memory space to the first tier switching elements;
performing by the second tier switching elements, substantially all of the queuing of traffic;
sending to the first tier switching elements, status information related to the status of shared memory resources; and
wherein the performing of the traffic management is based, at least in part, on the status information.