Routing paging packets in a system-on-a-chip base station architecture

A method, comprising:

• receiving, at a switch that is connected to a plurality of system-on-a-chip (SOC) devices, a paging packet;
• replicating the paging packet to make a number of copies of the paging packet that is equal to a number of ports of the switch associated with schedulers on the SOC devices that are registered to receive paging packets via the ports of the switch for wireless transmission;
• and
• transmitting the copies of the paging packet via the corresponding ports.

An apparatus comprising:

• a first switch;
• and
• a plurality of local system-on-a-chip (SOC) devices coupled to the first switch, wherein each local SOC device comprises:
• at least one scheduler for at least one carrier;
• and
• at least one hardware queue per scheduler for storing paging packets to be scheduled by the corresponding scheduler for wireless transmission;
• and wherein one of the local SOC devices is a transport SOC (TSOC) device that implements a call processing module that is configured to:
• receive a paging packet;
• forward a copy of the paging packet for storage in a hardware queue associated with each scheduler in the TSOC that has registered to receive paging packets;
• and
• provide a copy of the paging packet to the first switch in response to at least one scheduler in the other local SOC devices registering to receive paging packets.