Raghavendran Venkatraman

US Patent:

20030110289, Jun 12, 2003

Filed:

Dec 10, 2001

Appl. No.:

10/016777

Inventors:

Ameel Kamboh - Billerica MA, US
Faruq Rahman - Nashua NH, US
Raghavendran Venkatraman - Nashua NH, US

International Classification:

G06F015/173

US Classification:

709/242000, 709/243000

Abstract:

A routing device for forwarding data packets in a communication system includes a set of routing processors at least one interface that receives and transmits data packets and a routing table manager that maintains a forwarding table of routes provided by the set of routing processors. Each routing processor is associated with a routing protocol that determines a set of routes. The routing device may also include a set of fast forward engines that forward a data packet based on the forwarding table. The routing table manager may be implemented on a separate processor than each routing processor.