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High-performance network switch

  • US 6,697,368 B2
  • Filed: 05/15/2001
  • Issued: 02/24/2004
  • Est. Priority Date: 11/17/2000
  • Status: Expired due to Fees
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1. A digital switch comprising:

  • a switching fabric; and

    a plurality of blades coupled to said switching fabric via serial pipes;

    wherein each blade outputs serial data streams with in-band control information in multiple stripes to said switching fabric, wherein said switching fabric includes a plurality of cross points corresponding to the multiple stripes, wherein said multiple stripes comprise five stripes, and said serial data streams with in-band control information comprises five serial data streams of wide striped cells carrying packets of data, the wide striped cells including the in-band control information, wherein said plurality of cross points comprises five cross points, and each blade has five serial links coupled to respective ones of said five cross points.

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