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High speed fibre channel switch element

  • US 8,295,299 B2
  • Filed: 10/01/2004
  • Issued: 10/23/2012
  • Est. Priority Date: 10/01/2004
  • Status: Active Grant
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1. A Fibre Channel switch element, comprising:

  • a plurality of ports for sending and receiving frames;

    wherein each port is configurable to operate at more than one operating speed and includes a receive segment for receiving frames and a transmit segment for transmitting frames; and

    a rate select module that receives a select speed signal from a common port of the switch element generated by firmware executed by a switch element processor, and based on the select speed signal, the rate select module provides a clock and a configuration signal to select an operating rate of a serializer/deserializer (SERDES) from among a plurality of SERDES to configure a port from among the plurality of ports to operate at a rate equal to or higher than 10 gigabits per second (“

    G”

    ).

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