Patent ID: 9565137
Date: 2017-02-07
CPC Classifications: H04L

Claim:
1. A cut-through forwarding module comprising: a receiver unit being configured to receive data frames and to partition data packets of the data frames into data blocks, a transmitter unit being configured to transmit data frames based on received data packets, a pre-loading unit being configured to store a first data block of a first received data frame and to pre-load the stored first data block into the transmitter unit before a subsequent data frame is being received by the receiver unit, a processing unit being configured to control a transfer of the first data block of the first received data frame to the pre-loading unit and to control use of the pre-loaded first data block as a first data block of subsequent data frame to be transmitted by the transmitter unit, the subsequent data frame is to be transmitted after a transmission of a first transmitted data frame being based on the first received data frame.