(WO/2004/023731) CONFIGURABLE FAST ETHERNET AND GIGABIT ETHERNET DATA PORT
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| IPC: | H04L 12/413 (2006.01), H04L 12/44 (2006.01) | |||||||||||
| Applicants: | INFINEON TECHNOLOGIES AG [DE/DE]; St.-Martin-Strasse 53, 81669 Munich (DE) (All Except US). MISHRA, Shridhar, Mubaraq [IN/US]; (US) (US Only). ZHANG, Tina [CN/SG]; (SG) (US Only). HU, Chunfeng [CN/SG]; (SG) (US Only). SIM, Hak, Keong [SG/SG]; (SG) (US Only). | |||||||||||
| Inventors: | MISHRA, Shridhar, Mubaraq; (US). ZHANG, Tina; (SG). HU, Chunfeng; (SG). SIM, Hak, Keong; (SG). | |||||||||||
| Agent: | WATKIN, Timothy, Lawrence, Harvey; Lloyd Wise, Tanjong Pagar, P.O. Box 636, Singapore 910816 (SG). | |||||||||||
| Title: | CONFIGURABLE FAST ETHERNET AND GIGABIT ETHERNET DATA PORT | |||||||||||
| Abstract: | An Ethernet switch has at least one ingress/egress port 1 which is operable in two modes, in a first mode as a GE port and in a second mode as a plurality of FE ports. The port has 8 MAC interfaces 3 each of which is capable of receiving/transmitting FE packets, and at least one of the MAC interfaces can be configured to receive/transmit GE packets. Thus, the port has two modes of operation. The port further includes receive and transmit modules 5, 7 which receive GE and FE packets from, and transmit GE and FE packets to, the interfaces. If there are 8 such ports in the Ethernet switch, then by switching different numbers of the ports between the two modes, the switch may operate in 9 different modes: as 8 GE ports, 7 GE ports and 8 FE ports, , 2 GE ports and 48 FE ports, 1 GE port and 56 FE ports, or simply as 64 FE ports. | |||||||||||
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| Publication Language: | English (EN) |
| Filing Language: | English (EN) |
