Alcatel Lucent

Frank Jurgen Gilbert Devolder

Bo Liu

Paul Marie Pierre Spruyt

Charles Michael Storry

Michael Edward Smelters

Wensheng Li

Communication link bonding apparatus and methods are disclosed. Multiple communication links are configured, at a communication link termination module which transfers communication traffic between a further communication link and the multiple communication links, as a group for providing an aggregate group communication traffic rate. The aggregate group communication traffic rate is allocated among the grouped communication links, and communication traffic is distributed for transmission on the communication links in accordance with the communication traffic rate allocation. Once communication links of a group have been initialized using respective initialization communication traffic rates, a communication traffic rate allocation for each of the communication links may be calculated based on an attainable communication traffic rate of the communication link.

Communication link bonding apparatus and methods

A method for allocating a group bit rate among each line in a group of bonded lines in a communications network, the method comprising: receiving first and second actual bit rates (ACT, ACT) for first and second lines (L, L) of the group (G), respectively; calculating a splitting ratio (X) of the second actual bit rate to the first actual bit rate (X=ACT/ACT); if the splitting ratio (X) is within a predetermined range, determining ones of first and second minimum bit rates (MIN, MIN) and first and second maximum bit rates (MAX, MAX) for the first and second lines (L, L), respectively, from ones of the splitting ratio (X), a group minimum bit rate (MIN), a group maximum bit rate (MAX), and first and second preconfigured minimum bit rates (MIN, MIN) for the first and second lines (L, L), respectively; and, configuring first and second transceivers for the first and second lines (L, L), respectively, with ones of the first and second minimum (MIN, MIN) and maximum (MAX, MAX) bit rates.

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Frank Jurgen Gilbert Devolder