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Digital switch

  • US 5,991,295 A
  • Filed: 10/07/1996
  • Issued: 11/23/1999
  • Est. Priority Date: 10/10/1995
  • Status: Expired due to Fees
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1. A switch fabric comprising:

  • a shared memory;

    a number of switch fabric ports; and

    ,a switch fabric data controller for routing blocks of data received at one switch fabric port to one or more other switch fabric ports and writing and reading data to and from, respectively, the shared memory, wherein the switch fabric data controller preferentially routes a block of data from the one switch fabric port to the one or more other switch fabric ports without writing the block of data into the shared memory if the one or more other desired switch fabric ports are free or become free within a predetermined period, and otherwise writes the block of data into the shared memory for temporary storage if the one or more other switch fabric ports are busy.

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