Patent 7161901 was granted and assigned to Vitesse Semiconductor on January, 2007 by the United States Patent and Trademark Office.
A load balancing system and method for network nodes is provided. The load balancing system includes crossbar devices, queues to receive data and a load balancer. The load balancer determines the amount of data in each of the queues and sends data to specific crossbar devices based on the amount of data in each queue. The queues include a high priority queue and a number of non-high priority queues.