Alcatel Canada Inc.

Alcatel-lucent Canada Inc.

Thomas Edward Davis

Jason T Sterne

Robert Elliott Robotham

Nutan Behki

Ken Dubuc

Shay Nahum

Srinivasan Ramaswamy

A method and apparatus for communicating data packets according to classes of service is described. One or more service interfaces are coupled to a plurality of transport interfaces. The service interfaces carry packets having multiple classes of service, while each of the plurality of transport interfaces carries packets of a single class of service. A differentiated services codepoint profile is associated with each service interface and maps a differentiated services codepoint value of a data packet to a class of service and a drop precedence. The data packet is assigned to a transport interface based on its class of service and its drop precedence. Other factors, such as the destination of the data packet may be considered when assigning the data packet to a transport interface. Data packets from different transport interfaces are preferably enqueued in different queues of a destination service interface.

Method and apparatus for communicating data packets according to classes of service

A multi-protocol switch that supports both ATM and IP traffic and method for use is presented. The multi-protocol switch associates certain input connections, as identified by virtual path identifier/virtual connection identifier (VPI/VCI), with either IP or ATM traffic. When the connection identifier for a cell received indicates that the cell is an ATM cell, the multi-protocol switch forwards the cell through the switch, where the forwarding is based on the connection identifier for the cell. If the connection identifier for a cell indicates that the cell is IP traffic, the cell is stored with other cells included in the IP packet to which the cells correspond within the ingress line card of the switch. The destination address included in the packet is used to determine a forwarding decision for the cells included in the packet. After at least partial reassembly, the packet is segmented and forwarded through the switch based on the forwarding decision determined from the destination address.

Multi-protocol switch and method therefore

A method and apparatus for data flow control of a transmission port includes processing that begins by obtaining, for the transmission port over time, input data rate of at least one data transport type and output data rate of the at least one data transport type. The data type transport type is one of available bit rate (ABR), variable bit rate (VBR), constant bit rate (CBR), and unspecified bit rate (UBR). The data flow control continues by deriving a difference term from the input data rate and the output data rate and using the difference term and a previous generic explicit rate to generate a current generic explicit rate. The current generic explicit rate may further be generated from the previous generic explicit rate, the difference term, and an error term, where the error term is derived from a current queue value and a target queue value. Having generated the current generic explicit rate, at least one specific explicit rate for a corresponding one of a plurality of connections of the at least one data transport type is determined from the current generic explicit rate and a corresponding weighting factor.

Method and apparatus for providing data flow control of a transmission port

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Thomas Edward Davis