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US 2003/0147376 A1Published application
Rack mounted routers
AssigneeAvici Systems, Inc.
InventorsJohn M. Coutinho, Nelson Briggs, Corey DeLisle
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Abstract
A router system includes a rack, a first array of fabric router modules interconnected in a router fabric and housed in a first housing mounted on the rack, and a second array of fabric modules interconnected in a router fabric and housed in a second housing mounted adjacent to the first housing in the rack. The first and the second arrays of fabric router modules are connected together with fabric connections to form a system router fabric.
Claims14
A router system comprising:
- a rack;
- a first array of fabric router modules interconnected in a router fabric and housed in a first housing mounted on the rack;
- a second array of fabric modules interconnected in a router fabric and housed in a second housing mounted adjacent to the first housing in the rack;
- and
- fabric connections between modules of the first and second arrays of fabric router modules to form a system router fabric.
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A router system comprising:
- a rack;
- a first router mounted on the rack, the first router having a plurality of input/output ports, analyzing headers in packets received on input ports and routing the packets to output ports of the first router indicated by the headers;
- a second router mounted on the rack, the second router having a plurality of input/output ports, analyzing headers in packets received on input ports and routing the packets to output ports of the second router indicated by the headers;
- and
- connections between the first and second routers to form a router system in which headers of packets received at input ports of one of the first and second routers are analyzed and the packets are forwarded through the first and second routers to an output port of the other of the routers, the output port of the other of the routers being indicated by the analysis of the header in the one of the first and second routers.
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Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.