Allen Chen - Cupertino CA, US Jayakumar Natarajan - Fremont CA, US Siddharth Sheth - San Jose CA, US
International Classification:
H04L012/403
US Classification:
370/449000, 370/474000
Abstract:
A programmable intra-packet switching method includes a port polling process which polls, in a systematic fashion, data ports connected to a network to determine which port, if any, contains a data packet available for processing. A packet fragmentation process fragments the available data packet into at least one data cell having a defined size, wherein this fragmentation continues until a user-defined number of cells are generated.