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A novel networking architecture and technique for transmitting both cells and packets or frames across a common switch fabric, effected, at least in part, by utilizing a common set of algorithms for the forwarding engine (the ingress side) and a common set of algorithms for the QoS management (the e

A novel networking architecture and technique for transmitting both cells and packets or frames across a common switch fabric, effected, at least in part, by utilizing a common set of algorithms for the forwarding engine (the ingress side) and a common set of algorithms for the QoS management (the egress part) that are provided for each I/O module to process packet/cell information without impacting the correct operation of ATM switching and without transforming packets into cells for transfer across the switch fabric.

대표청구항 ▼

[ What is claimed is:] [5.]5. A method of processing packets of information from a forwarding switch and queue managing the forwarding, that comprises, as each packet is read from the switch, putting the same into one of a plurality of queues after it is verified that available physical space exists

[ What is claimed is:] [5.]5. A method of processing packets of information from a forwarding switch and queue managing the forwarding, that comprises, as each packet is read from the switch, putting the same into one of a plurality of queues after it is verified that available physical space exists in the queue; placing the packet information in a drop queue should there be no such space and returning the packet information through the switch; setting a watermark for each queue to enable the filtering of non-preferred information traffic; and allocating for different priorities by packet byte size and based upon time slicing the bandwidth.