Packet-processing apparatus and packet switch adapter for the processing of variable-length packets and a method thereof
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May 11, 2004
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Sep 17, 1999
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The present invention concerns a packet-processing apparatus and a packet switch adapter for the processing of variable-length packets comprising packet data and packet information. The adapter and/or the apparatus comprises a distributor for distributing the packets to several parallel, identical processing paths, each comprising at least one processing unit, whereto the packets are fed and which is able to process only for one of the packets its packet information at any moment in time. The feeding is interruptable for feeding a different of the packets to another of the processing paths. Furthermore, a packet-processing method for distributing received variable-length packets to several parallel, identical processing paths is disclosed.
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