Packet Trimming Deep Dive - Part III

Virtual Output Queue (VOQ) The Silicon One VOQ Architecture Instead of using dedicated deep interface buffers for packet queuing, Cisco Silicon One utilizes a Centralized Shared Memory architecture paired with a logical Virtual Output Queue (VOQ) mechanism. Because the VOQ concept is implemented within the Ingress (Rx) NPU entity, this queuing stage occurs after the initial ingress lookups but…