Egress Queue Manager functions
The EQM stores and arbitrates requests from Ingress Queue Mangers to send data across the switch fabric.
Supports 256 source ports and four priority/class of service levels.
The EQM has three selectable scheduling algorithms that arbitrate between classes of service:
- Strict Priority Scheduling
- Weighted Fair Scheduling
- Weighted Priority Scheduling
Collects frame statistics and stores them in external memory
Two operational modes:
- 8 output ports @ 100 Mbps
- 1 output port @ 1 Gbps