Patent ID: 8194653
Filing Date: 2012-06-05
Classification: H04L,Y02D

Abstract:
1. A network switch comprising: a plurality of input ports each associated with a plurality of ingress links, the ingress links each configured to receive a cell; a plurality of output ports each soft configured to be associated with a subset of one or more egress links selected from a plurality of egress links, where a subset of one or more egress links associated with an output port can be any combination of egress links selected from the plurality of egress links; and a switch circuit coupled to at least a subset of the ingress links and configured to: select, based at least in part on a stored mapping of the output ports and egress links, an egress link of the destination output port for association with an ingress link of an input port among the input ports, the selecting being independent of any other selections or associations of ingress links with egress links, wherein each of the egress links is configured to send data from a switch fabric to a corresponding access node; and switch the cell to the egress link.