A data bus subscriber and a method for processing data, wherein the data bus subscriber can be connected to a local bus, particularly a ring bus, and the data bus subscriber has an input interface, which can be connected to the local bus, for receiving first local bus data, an output interface, which can be connected to the local bus, for transmitting second local bus data, a processing component for synchronous processing of the first local bus data and/or data stored in a memory and for output of at least one control signal, a logic unit, which is adapted in order to modify a quantity of received first local bus data based on the control signal in order to generate the second local bus data to be transmitted, wherein the logic unit is further adapted for synchronous, delayed transmitting of the second local bus data via the output interface.

A Media Access Control address (MAC) learning method includes: parsing out packet header and packet verification parameter of a packet from an input/output port; generating a port identifier corresponding to the input/output port; starting first-stage procedure for the packet header; and starting second-stage procedure for the packet verification parameter. The first-stage procedure includes: performing, according to a MAC forwarding table and the port identifier, learning processing for source MAC address of the packet header to generate learning result; generating status parameter according to the learning result; and associating and storing the status parameter, the port identifier, and a hash address corresponding to the source MAC address into a memory. The second-stage procedure includes: obtaining the status parameter and the hash address from the memory according to the port identifier; and updating the MAC forwarding table according to the packet verification parameter, the obtained status parameter, and the obtained hash address.

A data bus subscriber and a method for processing data, wherein the data bus subscriber can be connected to a local bus, particularly a ring bus, and the data bus subscriber has an input interface, which can be connected to the local bus, for receiving first local bus data, an output interface, which can be connected to the local bus, for transmitting second local bus data, a processing component for synchronous processing of the first local bus data and/or data stored in a memory and for output of at least one control signal, a logic unit, which is adapted in order to modify a quantity of received first local bus data based on the control signal in order to generate the second local bus data to be transmitted, wherein the logic unit is further adapted for synchronous, delayed transmitting of the second local bus data via the output interface.

Examples are described herein that relate to a mesh in a switch fabric. The mesh can include one or more buses that permit operations (e.g., read, write, or responses) to continue in the same direction, drop off to a memory, drop off a bus to permit another operation to use the bus, or receive operations that are changing direction. A latency estimate can be determined at least for operations that drop off from a bus to permit another operation to use the bus or receive and channel operations that are changing direction. An operation with a highest latency estimate (e.g., time of traversing a mesh) can be permitted to use the bus, even causing another operation, that is not to change direction, to drop off the bus and re-enter later.

In one embodiment, an apparatus includes a switch core that has a multi-stage switch fabric. A first set of peripheral processing devices coupled to the multi-stage switch fabric by a set of connections that have a protocol. Each peripheral processing device from the first set of peripheral processing devices is a storage node that has virtualized resources. The virtualized resources of the first set of peripheral processing devices collectively define a virtual storage resource interconnected by the switch core. A second set of peripheral processing devices coupled to the multi-stage switch fabric by a set of connections that have the protocol. Each peripheral processing device from the first set of peripheral processing devices is a compute node that has virtualized resources. The virtualized resources of the second set of peripheral processing devices collectively define a virtual compute resource interconnected by the switch core.

Embodiments of the present invention provide a method, an apparatus, and a system for providing a network traversing service. A resource management center sends a network traversing tunnel resource creating instruction to a secure traversing server according to a received network traversing tunnel resource leasing request sent by a management server of a carrier. After the secure traversing server creates a network traversing tunnel resource, the information of the network traversing tunnel resource is sent to the management server of the carrier through the resource management center. The information of the network traversing tunnel resource includes virtual access point information and service channel information. Thus, the management server of the carrier can provide a network traversing service for a terminal according to the virtual access point information and the service channel information. Network expandability of the carrier and reliability of network traversing can be improved by using the method.

A processing device includes an internal transmitter to receive packets and to forward those packets across a link to an external receiver external to the processing device. The internal transmitter is to receive a portion of a packet and to begin transmitting the portion across the link to the external receiver before the entire overall packet, of which the portion is a part, is received and validated. For a packet determined to have an error, the internal transmitter does not resend the overall packet across the link even if a message is received from the external receiver to resend the overall packet.

Systems and methods to share a plurality of virtual network interface controllers (vNICs) amongst a plurality of hosts 104 are described. The described methods are implemented in a network sharing system (NISS) (102) including a programmable vNIC cluster (204) comprising the plurality of vNICs, where a set of vNICs from amongst the plurality of vNICs is dynamically configured to communicate with a host (104-1) from amongst the plurality of hosts (104). Further, the NISS (102) includes a multi-host peripheral component interconnect (PCI) express (PCIe) interface and mapper (MHIP) (202) coupled to the programmable vNIC cluster (204), to receive data packets from the set of vNICs, wherein the set of vNICs comprises one or more vNICs; and provide the data packets from the set of vNICs to the host (104-1) based on demultiplexing of the data packets.

A first set of bits is extracted from a header of a first packet. A second set of bits is extracted from a header of a second packet. The first set of bits and the second set of bits are combined into a combined single data unit representing the first packet and the second packet. The combined single data unit is transferred to a packet processing device. The packet processing device decomposes the single data unit to extract the first set of bits corresponding to the first packet and the second set of bits corresponding to the second packet. A first reduced set of processing operations is performed to process the first packet using the first set of bits corresponding to the first packet. A second reduced set of processing operations is performed to process the second packet using the second set of bits corresponding to the second packet.

A packet processing method and related devices are disclosed. The method includes step of slicing and encapsulating a client packet based on a preset slice length, and adding a tag value to each slice, here the tag value is used to identify characteristic information of the client packet in the slice; and then outputting encapsulated slices.