Patent ID: 7936770
Filing Date: 2011-05-03
Classification: H04L

Abstract:
1. An apparatus associated with a network, the apparatus comprising: a plurality of physical output ports for transmission of network traffic, wherein a first physical output port and a second physical output port are capable of being arranged as an external link aggregated interface, wherein at least one of the first or second physical output ports is based on a networking standard, the external link aggregated interface configured to represent the first physical output port and the second physical output port as a virtual port; associated with the first physical output port: associated with the second physical output port: a plurality of logical queues associated with the first physical output port and the second physical output port; and a logical scheduler configured to schedule transmission of units of network traffic associated with the plurality of logical queues to the plurality of physical output ports associated with the virtual port based on a classification of each of the units, the logical scheduler scheduling a plurality of units of network traffic associated with a first of the plurality of logical queues to the first set of physical queues and the second set of physical queues associated with the first physical output port and the second physical output port, respectively, for transmission as further scheduled by the first and second transmit schedulers through the first and second physical output ports, respectively, as the virtual port.