Patent ID: 7436845
Filing Date: 2008-10-14
Classification: H04L

Abstract:
1. An Infiniband device comprising: a plurality of input/output ports, each port having associated therewith an input queue for storage of a packet received at that port, each port also having associated therewith a plurality of output queues for storage of a packet transmitted from an input queue via a switching matrix, each port being arranged to share its associated plurality of output queues with at least one other port; wherein each input queue is associated with a single output queue of shared plurality of output queues; and wherein a packet received at an input queue is transmitted to all associated output queues via the switching matrix in parallel with an output queue select signal, the output queue select signal can be sent to less than all of the associated output queues, any output queue not receiving the output queue select signal can be configured to discard the packet transmitted from the input queue.