Patent ID: 6944170

Claim:
A switching arrangement for transporting data packets which comprise a section with data packet destination information and a payload section, said data packets heading via one or more input ports of a switching device towards one or more output ports, said switching device being able to route said data packets according to said data packet destination information, to at least one dedicated of said output ports, comprising at each input port an input buffer with at least as many single input queues as said switching arrangement has output ports, and an input controller for each input port, serving for controlling the order of multiplexing said data packets from said input queues of said corresponding input buffer to said switching device, comprising a demultiplexer for making for each of said data packets an entry into those of said input queues which are identified in said packet destination information of the corresponding data packet, whereby each said input controller is designed to allow simultaneous transmission of those data packets whose entries are located in different of said input queues and whose payload sections have identical content.