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Packet content lookup, 233
Packet Fair Queuing (PFQ) schedulers, 280–285
SCFQ, 284
WFQ, 282–283
worst-case WFQ, 284–285
Packet flow handling, 241–286
CoS, 246–249
at network edge and core, 250
terminology, 242–243
Packet forwarding, 60, 197
simple decision, 232
Packet interfaces, 321–330. See also External
interfaces
access, 330
CSIX, 329
IEEE 802., 3, 326–328
IP blocks, 323
MII and GMII derivatives, 328–329
NPSI, 323
SPI, 324–326
SPI-S, 323
UTOPIA, 324
Packet loss ratio, 244
Packet networks, 3, 6, 16
Packet processing, 239
architectures, 195–196
classification, 184
compression, 237
cut-through architecture, 195
direction, 184, 186–188
egress, 188
encryption, 237–238
framework, ...

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