A system on a chip, SoC, comprising: a plurality of synchronously clocked nodes of a bufferless transport medium arranged as a mesh of the plurality of nodes, wherein the mesh system is configured in a first traffic independent connection state for a first cycle of a traffic schedule period and in a second traffic independent connection state for a second cycle of the traffic schedule period, each node of the plurality of nodes comprising: an input port register to receive payload data and corresponding control information from a first neighboring node; an egress queue coupled to the input port register to receive the payload data and to forward the payload data to an agent associated with the node; an output data selector to select payload data from the input port register or from the agent for output from the node; an ingress controller coupled to the output data selector to control the output data selector; and an output port selector coupled to the output data selector to output the selected payload data and corresponding control information according to a traffic independent sequence of connection states to a first output port coupled to a second neighboring node during the first cycle of the traffic schedule period and to a second output port coupled to a third neighboring node during the second cycle of the traffic schedule period. a plurality of synchronously clocked nodes of a bufferless transport medium arranged as a mesh of the plurality of nodes, wherein the mesh system is configured in a first traffic independent connection state for a first cycle of a traffic schedule period and in a second traffic independent connection state for a second cycle of the traffic schedule period, each node of the plurality of nodes comprising: an input port register to receive payload data and corresponding control information from a first neighboring node; an egress queue coupled to the input port register to receive the payload data and to forward the payload data to an agent associated with the node; an output data selector to select payload data from the input port register or from the agent for output from the node; an ingress controller coupled to the output data selector to control the output data selector; and an output port selector coupled to the output data selector to output the selected payload data and corresponding control information according to a traffic independent sequence of connection states to a first output port coupled to a second neighboring node during the first cycle of the traffic schedule period and to a second output port coupled to a third neighboring node during the second cycle of the traffic schedule period. an input port register to receive payload data and corresponding control information from a first neighboring node; an egress queue coupled to the input port register to receive the payload data and to forward the payload data to an agent associated with the node; an output data selector to select payload data from the input port register or from the agent for output from the node; an ingress controller coupled to the output data selector to control the output data selector; and an output port selector coupled to the output data selector to output the selected payload data and corresponding control information according to a traffic independent sequence of connection states to a first output port coupled to a second neighboring node during the first cycle of the traffic schedule period and to a second output port coupled to a third neighboring node during the second cycle of the traffic schedule period.