TRAFFIC MANAGEMENT ARCHITECTURE

摘要

An architecture for sorting incoming data packets in real time, on the fly, processes the packets and places them into an exit order queue before storing the packets. This is in contrast to the traditional way of storing first then sorting later and provides rapid processing capability. A processor (22) generates packet records from an input stream (20) and determines an exit order number for the related packet. The records are stored in an orderlist manager (24) whilst the data portions are stored in memory hub (21) for later retrieval in the exit order stored in the manager (24). The processor (22) is preferably a parallel processor array using SIMD and provided with rapid access to shared state (23) by a state engine.