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25. The system of claim 24, wherein credits are withheld from links providing packets associated with the flow. ����
A queuing system having buffers apportioned based on destination is referred to herein as virtual output queuing (VOQ). VOQ is described further in Tamir Y., Frazier G.: ��High Performance multi-queue buffers for VLSI communications switches��, Proc. Of 15th Ann. Symp. On Comp. Arch., pp. 343-354, June 1988, the entirety of which is incorporated by reference for all purposes.
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