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Systems and methods for packet switching

  • US 9,900,267 B2
  • Filed: 03/03/2017
  • Issued: 02/20/2018
  • Est. Priority Date: 10/03/2013
  • Status: Active Grant
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1. A method comprising:

  • providing a switching device implementing cross-point switching functionality, the switching device including a first plurality of input/output (I/O) ports and a second plurality of I/O ports, wherein each port of the first plurality of I/O ports is electrically coupled to a pluggable transceiver socket configured to receive a cable connector; and

    electrically coupling a processing device including a plurality of transceivers to the second plurality of I/O ports;

    receiving programming logic incorporating a programmable port mapping scheme at a control interface of the switching device, the programming logic instructing the switching device to output the first electric signal to a second I/O port of the first plurality of I/O ports and to a third I/O port of the second plurality of I/O ports, in accordance with the programmable port mapping scheme;

    receiving at the switching device, via a first I/O port of the first plurality of I/O ports, a first electric signal encoding one or more incoming data packets;

    receiving, at the processing device, the first electric signal, and outputting a second electric signal encoding one or more modified data packets derived from the incoming data packets, the processing device implementing a data compression algorithm to compress the incoming data packets and create the modified data packets; and

    transmitting the modified data packets back to the switching device from the processing device through at least one of the plurality of transceivers.

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