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FORCE10 NETWORKS INC
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US8345439B1Jan 1, 2013
Modular chassis arrangement with redundant logic power delivery system
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US6988162B2Jan 17, 2006
High-speed router with single backplane distributing both power and signaling
FORCE10 NETWORKS INC65 citations98
US6812803B2Nov 2, 2004
Passive transmission line equalization using circuit-board thru-holes
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US6745277B1Jun 1, 2004
Intelligent interleaving scheme for multibank memory
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US7558872B1Jul 7, 2009
Point-to-point protocol flow control extension
FORCE10 NETWORKS INC52 citations97
US7277425B1Oct 2, 2007
High-speed router switching architecture
FORCE10 NETWORKS INC123 citations97
US7190696B1Mar 13, 2007
System and method for distributing packets among a plurality of paths to a destination
FORCE10 NETWORKS INC242 citations97
US7154902B1Dec 26, 2006
Epoch-based packet switching
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US8014278B1Sep 6, 2011
Adaptive load balancing between ECMP or LAG port group members
FORCE10 NETWORKS INC187 citations96
US7650525B1Jan 19, 2010
SPI-4.2 dynamic implementation without additional phase locked loops
FORCE10 NETWORKS INC95 citations96
US6941649B2Sep 13, 2005
Method of fabricating a high-layer-count backplane
FORCE10 NETWORKS INC53 citations96
US6904015B1Jun 7, 2005
Congestion avoidance profiles in a packet switching system
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US7903554B1Mar 8, 2011
Leaking component link traffic engineering information
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US6975638B1Dec 13, 2005
Interleaved weighted fair queuing mechanism and system
FORCE10 NETWORKS INC114 citations95
US7897880B1Mar 1, 2011
Inductance-tuned circuit board via crosstalk structures
FORCE10 NETWORKS INC109 citations94
US7760668B1Jul 20, 2010
Self-reconfiguring spanning tree
FORCE10 NETWORKS INC77 citations93
US7577758B2Aug 18, 2009
Hardware support for wire-speed, stateful matching and filtration of network traffic
FORCE10 NETWORKS INC18 citations92
US7468979B2Dec 23, 2008
Layer-1 packet filtering
FORCE10 NETWORKS INC17 citations92
US7336502B1Feb 26, 2008
High-speed router with backplane using tuned-impedance thru-holes and vias
FORCE10 NETWORKS INC29 citations92
US7274696B1Sep 25, 2007
Scalable redundant switch fabric architecture
FORCE10 NETWORKS INC31 citations92
US7224671B2May 29, 2007
Method and apparatus for load balancing in network processing device
FORCE10 NETWORKS INC27 citations92
US6963576B1Nov 8, 2005
Scheduling and arbitration scheme for network processing device
FORCE10 NETWORKS INC72 citations92
US6822876B2Nov 23, 2004
High-speed electrical router backplane with noise-isolated power distribution
FORCE10 NETWORKS INC37 citations92
US7009974B1Mar 7, 2006
Method and apparatus for updating addresses in network processing device
FORCE10 NETWORKS INC35 citations91
US6944159B1Sep 13, 2005
Method and apparatus for providing virtual point to point connections in a network
FORCE10 NETWORKS INC43 citations91
US7864706B1Jan 4, 2011
Border gateway protocol peer dampening
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US7729296B1Jun 1, 2010
Distributed BPDU processing for spanning tree protocols
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US7945884B1May 17, 2011
Backplane routing arrangement with decreased crosstalk
FORCE10 NETWORKS INC20 citations89
US7869432B1Jan 11, 2011
Peer-to-peer link aggregation across a service provider network
FORCE10 NETWORKS INC96 citations88
US8345536B1Jan 1, 2013
Multicast high availability enhancements for non-stop forwarding
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US7513923B1Apr 7, 2009
Variable impedance air filter for electronic systems
FORCE10 NETWORKS INC26 citations87
US7957391B1Jun 7, 2011
Low overhead aggregation at the physical layer
FORCE10 NETWORKS INC18 citations84
US7876900B1Jan 25, 2011
Hybrid scrambled transmission coding
FORCE10 NETWORKS INC12 citations84
US7615709B2Nov 10, 2009
Circuit board through-hole impedance tuning using clearance size variations
FORCE10 NETWORKS INC10 citations84
US7405947B1Jul 29, 2008
Backplane with power plane having a digital ground structure in signal regions
FORCE10 NETWORKS INC11 citations84
US7239527B1Jul 3, 2007
Backplane with power plane having a digital ground structure in signal regions
FORCE10 NETWORKS INC14 citations84
US7843830B1Nov 30, 2010
Resilient retransmission of epoch data
FORCE10 NETWORKS INC14 citations83
US7836293B1Nov 16, 2010
Accelerated deserialized boot implementation for a multiprocessor system
FORCE10 NETWORKS INC22 citations83
US7346067B2Mar 18, 2008
High efficiency data buffering in a computer network device
FORCE10 NETWORKS INC10 citations83
US7839869B1Nov 23, 2010
Method and apparatus for providing virtual point to point connections in a network
FORCE10 NETWORKS INC14 citations82
US7636364B2Dec 22, 2009
Redundant router network
FORCE10 NETWORKS INC8 citations82
US8027256B1Sep 27, 2011
Multi-port network device using lookup cost backpressure
FORCE10 NETWORKS INC18 citations80
US7088711B2Aug 8, 2006
High-speed router backplane
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US9705824B2Jul 11, 2017
Intelligent chassis management
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US9276835B2Mar 1, 2016
Packet segmentation with different segment sizes for a switch fabric
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US8026450B2Sep 27, 2011
Multi-dielectric material circuit board supporting high-speed and low-speed signaling
FORCE10 NETWORKS INC3 citations63
US7448132B2Nov 11, 2008
Method of fabricating a high-layer-count backplane
FORCE10 NETWORKS INC2 citations63
US7124502B2Oct 24, 2006
Method of fabricating a high-layer-count backplane
FORCE10 NETWORKS INC3 citations63
US7949134B2May 24, 2011
Multiplexed multilane hybrid scrambled transmission coding
FORCE10 NETWORKS INC5 citations62
US7584303B2Sep 1, 2009
Lossless, stateful, real-time pattern matching with deterministic memory resources
FORCE10 NETWORKS INC4 citations62
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