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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Sep. 13, 2022
Filed:
Dec. 22, 2017
Telefonaktiebolaget Lm Ericsson (Publ), Stockholm, SE;
Jun Deng, Beijing, CN;
Zhenning Zhao, Beijing, CN;
TELEFONAKTIEBOLAGET LM ERICSSON (publ), Stockholm, SE;
Abstract
Methods and apparatus are provided for processing communications. In one aspect, a method of processing Flex Ethernet (FlexE) data comprises receiving a plurality of data blocks over at least one physical layer connection, each data block corresponding to one of at least one FlexE client flow, wherein data blocks corresponding to a first client flow of the at least one FlexE client flow have a destination over at least one further physical layer connection and contain Ethernet packets and Operation, Administration & Management (OAM) blocks, forming at least one further Ethernet packet containing at least one of the OAM blocks, the at least one further Ethernet packet specifying the destination, and providing the at least one further Ethernet packet to a switching node for forwarding to the destination.