This report describes the design and implementation of a gigabit ATM switching system supporting link rates from 150 Mb/s to 2.4 Gb/s, with a uniquely e cient multicast switch a r c hitecture that enables the construction of systems with essentially constant per port costs for con gurations ranging from 8 to 4096 ports and system capacities approaching 10 Tb/s. The system design supports many-to-one and many-to-many forms of multicast, in addition to the usual one-to-many. It also provides multicast virtual paths, constant time con guration of multicast connections and an e cient p a c ket-level discard method, that can achieve 100% link e ciencies, without large bu ers.
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