METHODS AND APPARATUS FOR DETERMINISTIC LOW LATENCY PACKET FORWARDING FOR DAISY CHAINING OF NETWORK DEVICES

摘要

Methods, apparatus, systems, and articles of manufacture are disclosed for deterministic low latency packet forwarding for daisy chaining of network devices. An example apparatus includes fabric circuitry, first data interface circuitry and second data interface circuitry coupled to the fabric circuitry, the first data interface circuitry to, in response to a receipt of a data packet, identify the data packet to be transmitted to third data interface circuitry, a data forwarding buffer, and packet forwarding engine circuitry coupled to the data forwarding buffer and the fabric circuitry, the packet forwarding engine circuitry to store the data packet in the data forwarding buffer, and instruct the second data interface circuitry to transmit the data packet from the data forwarding buffer to the third data interface circuitry.