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In Part III, for simplicity of terminology, we will generically refer to interconnect devices as routers. Each chapter in Part III addresses the efficient implementation of a key function for such routers. In the simplest model of a router forwarding path, the destination address of a packet is first looked up to determine a destination port; the packet is then switched to the destination port; finally, the packet is scheduled at the destination port to provide QoS guarantees. In addition, modern high-performance ...
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