Patent ID: 8175085

Claim:
A system comprising: a switching fabric comprising a plurality of interface lanes coupled to a plurality of network switches; a plurality of scaling devices, wherein each scaling device of the plurality of scaling devices is coupled between the switching fabric and a network endpoint device of a plurality of network endpoint devices; and wherein a scaling device of the plurality of scaling devices comprises: a plurality of egress first-in-first-out (FIFO) buffers corresponding to a plurality of attached lanes of the plurality of interface lanes, each egress FIFO buffer coupled to a packet segmenter and a particular lane of the plurality of attached lanes; the packet segmenter configured to segment an original packet received from the network endpoint device into a plurality of packet segments and distribute the plurality of packet segments to the plurality egress first-in-first-out (FIFO) buffers and thereby stripe the original packet across the plurality of attached lanes.