| 摘要 |
A method and apparatus for increasing data transfer rate between routing devices (310-324) in a packet switched environment comprising a plurality of routing devices (310-324) each of which are connected to one or more other routing devices by a bus (410-422) or other connection that is generally dedicated to data transfer between two devices. Each device may optionally include one or more ports for connection of a computing device thereto and each port is assigned an address (202). The data transfer rate between routing devices is increased due to the reduced length of each bus when need only span the distance between adjacent routing devices. In one embodiment, the routing devices comprise circuit cards or chip and are contained within a router of a packet switched computer network. |
