Alcatel Lucent

Alcatel-lucent Canada Inc.

John William Galway

Jason T Sterne

Michel Rochon

Adrian Alfred Ellsworth

Mark Thibodeau

Martin Darwin

Peter Donovan

Michael Wayne Mitchell

Mark Jason Thibodeau

The invention is directed to a method and system for efficiently distributing Inverse Multiplexing over ATM (IMA) filler cells on IMA logical links having inactive or unusable IMA sub-links. Inactive IMA sub-links are identified during round-robin distribution of ATM data cells to active IMA sub-links. Predefined IMA filler cells are transmitted simultaneously on the identified inactive IMA sub-links when an ATM data cell is transmitted on an active IMA sub-link, thereby reducing the delay between transmitting ATM data cells.

Distributing cells on an IMA logical link having inactive IMA sub-links

The invention provides a system and method of controlling timing of release of traffic for a communication switch. The traffic originates from at least one source, is directed to a common ingress point of the switch and is directed to a common egress point in the switch. The egress point has a maximum egress transmission rate. The traffic has at least one datastream. Each datastream has a requested transmission rate. The method comprises, for each datastream, establishing a maximum cell release rate such that a sum of each of the maximum cell release rate does not exceed the maximum egress transmission rate and utilizing the maximum cell release rate to govern release of local traffic in the datastream from the ingress point.

System and method for providing gaps between data elements at ingress to a network element

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John William Galway