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To: Richard Ruscio who wrote (12737)	1/9/1999 6:57:00 PM
From: unclewest	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 93625

milehigh, would you please translate that last post for me!!! thanks unclewest

To: Richard Ruscio who wrote (12737)	1/9/1999 7:11:00 PM
From: MileHigh	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 93625

rr, You are technically inclined, check out this US Patent from 3COM that specifically mentions RDRAM at the bottom. What does this patent potentially mean to us? Go Bronco's!! USPTO] (1 of 1 ) -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- United States Patent 5,802,054 Bellenger September 1, 1998 -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Atomic network switch with integrated circuit switch nodes Abstract An atomic type switch mesh is combined with standard local area network links, such as high speed Ethernet, and a bridge-like protocol to provide a high performance scalable network switch. The network switch comprises a plurality of switch nodes, a first set of communication links which are coupled between switch nodes internal to the network switch, and a second set of communication links which comprise network links from switch nodes on the border of the network switch to systems external to the network switch. The respective switch nodes include a set of ports (having more than two members) which are connected to respective communication links in either the first or second set of communication links. Each port in the set comprises a medium access control (MAC) logic unit for a connectionless network protocol, preferably high speed Ethernet. The switch nodes also include a route table memory which has a set of accessible memory locations that store switch route data specifying routes through the plurality of switch nodes within the boundaries of the network switch. Flow detect logic is coupled with the set of ports on the switch node, which monitors frames received by the set of ports and generates an identifying tag for use in accessing the route table memory. Finally, the switch node includes node route logic which is coupled with the flow detect logic, the route table memory and the set of ports. The node route logic monitors frames received by the set of ports to route a received frame for transmission out a port in the set of ports. -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Inventors: Bellenger; Donald M. (Los Altos Hills, CA) Assignee: 3Com Corporation (Santa Clara, CA) Appl. No.: 698745 Filed: August 16, 1996 U.S. Class: 370/401 Intern'l Class: H04L 012/66 Field of Search: 370/351,400,401,402,407,408,422 CLIP: -------------------------- According to one embodiment of the present invention, integrated circuit 200 includes a memory interface 206 for connection directly to an external memory, such as a Rambus dynamic random access memory RDRAM 207. The RDRAM 207 is utilized to store the switch route table 220, and for frame buffers 221 utilized during the routing of frames through the node. --------------------------