Patent ID: 7046626
Filing Date: 2006-05-16
Classification: H04L

Abstract:
1. A switching arrangement having: a cross bar; a plurality of ingress means connected to an input side of the cross-bar; a plurality of egress means connected to an output side of the cross-bar, each ingress means including an ingress schedule storing means for storing a plurality of transmission queue identities and an ingress scheduler, and each egress means including an egress schedule storing means for storing a plurality of ingress identities and an ingress scheduler; a management card coupled to the ingress and egress schedule storing means, which is adapted to transmit configuration primitives to each of the plurality of ingress means and to each of the plurality of egress means, the configuration primitives providing updated entries for the ingress and egress schedule storing means; ingress pointer means for referencing one of said stored plurality of transmission queue identities; and egress pointer means for referencing one of said stored plurality of ingress identities from which data is to be received to manage the contents of each ingress schedule storing means and each egress schedule storing means; whereby at each cell transmit time, a cell transmitted from a referenced transmission queue in the ingress means is received at said egress means from said referenced ingress identity.