Scalable multidimensional ring network
US6775295B1 · kind B1 · utility
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Key dates
| Filing date | Mar 23, 2000 |
| Grant date | Aug 10, 2004 |
| Priority date | — |
| Expiry date | Mar 23, 2020 |
Classification
- Technology area (CPC H)Electricity
- CPC primaryH04L12/433
- WIPO fieldDigital communication
- WIPO sectorElectrical engineering
Abstract
A multidimensional ring network includes a plurality of network processing devices that are connected together with a plurality of individual ring networks. Packets are sent between any two network processing devices on the same ring network. Intermediate network processing devices, located on that same ring, between the sending and receiving network processing devices, do not add additional hops to the packet transfer. The intermediate processing devices, between the sending and receiving devices, simply pass the packets through to the next processing device on that ring. The packets are passed through to the destination processing device without the intermediate network processing devices having to read or process the packet headers. This allows the number of network processing devices on the individual ring networks and the number of individual ring networks in the multidimensional ring network to be increased without adding additional hops, and the associated latency, between the network processing devices.
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