Patent ID: 7643495

Claim:
A system comprising: a switch having an input, a plurality of outputs, and an encryption engine; a first wireless transceiver comprising a first media access control device coupled to a first of the plurality of outputs; a second wireless transceiver comprising a second media access control device coupled to a second of the plurality of outputs; a host processor unit comprising a central processing unit, a network interface, a host memory, and a host interface coupled by a bus to the input of the switch; and a memory coupled with the switch, upstream from the host; wherein data is received via the network interface and stored in the host memory; wherein the data is subsequently forwarded via the host interface to the input of the switch for transmission by a one of a group consisting of the first wireless transceiver and the second wireless transceiver; wherein the switch is configured to receive the data from the host interface at the input; wherein the encryption engine is configured to encrypt the data as encrypted data, and the switch is responsive to store the encrypted data in the memory coupled with the switch; wherein a signal is sent to the one of the group consisting of the first wireless transceiver and the second wireless transceiver responsive to the data being transferred to the memory coupled with the switch; and wherein the one of the group consisting of the first wireless transceiver and the second wireless transceiver is configured to retrieve the data from the memory coupled with the switch responsive to the signal.