System and method of downloading data for a communication switch
CA 2369196 A1 · Owner: Mceachern, William Ross · Inventors: Mceachern, William Ross; Brumpton, Aaron Matthew Willis; Buchko, Steven William
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A router is disclosed for use in a network to carry data packets therein. Each router, provides a hop along a path through the network extending from a source network address, node to a destination network address node. Each route for routing data packets contains a, destination network address to a next successive hop along a path between the source, network address and the destination network address. Each router has a central routing, processor in communication with its forwarders over a control medium to provide routing, tables to each forwarder defining the next hop for forwarding received data packets for each, destination address. Routing table updates of the forwarders by the …
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- Filed January 24, 2002. No grant is recorded for it in Canada; had it been granted, its 20-year term would have ended January 24, 2022.
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