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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Mar. 15, 2022
Filed:
Sep. 09, 2019
Applicant:
Ciena Corporation, Hanover, MD (US);
Inventors:
Assignee:
Ciena Corporation, Hanover, MD (US);
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
H04J 3/16 (2006.01); H04L 49/351 (2022.01); H04L 25/49 (2006.01); H04Q 11/04 (2006.01); H04L 49/20 (2022.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
H04J 3/1611 (2013.01); H04J 3/1658 (2013.01); H04L 25/49 (2013.01); H04L 49/351 (2013.01); H04Q 11/04 (2013.01); H04J 2203/0003 (2013.01); H04J 2203/0089 (2013.01); H04L 49/20 (2013.01); H04Q 2213/13389 (2013.01);
Abstract
A switch system includes interface circuitry configured to ingress and egress clients each including a stream of encoded blocks; and switch circuitry configured to switch the clients between the interface circuitry based on block boundaries of the stream of encoded blocks. The stream of encoded blocks can include 64 b/66 b encoding. Each block in the stream of encoded blocks can be switched intact.