Apparatus and method for packet length and enhanced traffic profiling in a massively parallel router

摘要

A router for interconnecting external devices coupled to the router. The router comprises a switch fabric and routing nodes coupled to the switch fabric. Each routing node exchanges data packets with the external devices and with other routing nodes via the switch fabric. A routing node determines packet lengths of data packets received in the routing node and sums packet lengths of data packets associated with particular routes. The routing node comprises a memory for storing route counters, wherein the route counters store counts of data packets for particular routes and store packet length sum values of data packets for particular routes. The routing node calculates a first bandwidth value from a first data packet count and a first packet length sum value stored in the route counters.