Alcatel Lucent

Alcatel

Alcatel USA Sourcing, L.p.

Gerald R Dubois

Robert S Gammenthaler, Jr

Ignacio A Linares

Serge Francois Fourcand

Gary D Hanson

Eddie Ray Bradley

Dwight W Doss

James C McKinley

Balachandar S Gettala

Philip Lee Francis

Keith F Deacon

Teck Q Chin

A system and method for sending and receiving information in a network using a redundant switching architecture. In one embodiment, the method includes generating a communications frame including a first header at a first control element. The first header is mapped to a second header and then the communications frame is encapsulated with a set of two redundant destination addresses whereby two instances of the communications frame are created. The communications frame instances, including the second header and the redundant destination addresses, are sent from the first control element via both a first switching plane and a second switching plane to a second control element. Upon receipt, only one of the communications frame instances is retained by the second control element for upstream processing.

System and method for providing communications in a network using a redundant switching architecture

The present invention provides an apparatus, system and method of increasing port availability for a communication switch. First, second and third M port crossbars are arranged to provide a crossbar with a increased number of ports available for the communication switch. K ports of a first M port crossbar are individually coupled to K ports of a second and a third M port crossbar via interconnect buses. Further, K ports of the second and third M port crossbars are individually coupled via interconnect buses resulting in L available ports on each the M port crossbars in which M&#x3e;L&#x3e;K.

Switch architecture using multiple crossbars

A system and method for introducing user-defined (e.g., proprietary) signals into a standard backplane. A front side backplane portion is provided with a set of connector holes that are electrically separated from corresponding connector holes provided on the backplane's rear side portion. Thus, whereas the separated front side connector portion is operable with standard bus signals, the rear side connector portion can support an independent signal pathway to carry one or more user-defined signals.

System and method for introducing proprietary signals into a standard backplane via physical separation

A telecommunications shelf is disclosed that includes a back portion of a shelf, a bus control transition module, and a back plane. The back portion of the shelf is operable to receive a plurality of transition modules. The bus control transition module is received in the back portion of the shelf. The back plane is coupled to the bus control transition module. The bus control transition module is operable to provide system functions for a plurality of cards in the shelf over the back plane.

System and method for providing system functions in a telecommunications network

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Richardson, TX, United States of America

Gerald R Dubois