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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Oct. 09, 2018
Filed:
Sep. 29, 2015
Applicant:
Ciena Corporation, Hanover, MD (US);
Inventors:
Sebastien Gareau, Ottawa, CA;
Marc Leclair, Gatineau, CA;
Assignee:
Ciena Corporation, Hanover, MD (US);
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
H04L 12/931 (2013.01); H04L 12/26 (2006.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
H04L 49/35 (2013.01); H04L 43/0864 (2013.01); H04L 43/106 (2013.01);
Abstract
Time transfer systems and methods in Flexible Ethernet (FlexE) between a first node and a second node include detecting a timestamp point of reference in FlexE overhead and sampling a time based thereon; communicating samples of the timestamp point of reference between the first node and the second node; and determining a time delay between the first node and the second node based on the samples.