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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Jan. 30, 2024
Filed:
Jul. 15, 2021
Applicant:
Ciena Corporation, Hanover, MD (US);
Inventors:
John Andrew Earl, Ottawa, CA;
David James Evans, Ottawa, CA;
David Stuart, Ottawa, CA;
Daniel Claude Perras, Ottawa, CA;
Assignee:
Ciena Corporation, Hanover, MD (US);
Attorneys:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
H04J 3/06 (2006.01); H04W 92/04 (2009.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
H04J 3/0667 (2013.01); H04J 3/067 (2013.01); H04J 3/0655 (2013.01); H04J 3/0673 (2013.01); H04W 92/04 (2013.01);
Abstract
A network element includes a port; and a device with circuitry configured to encode data for communication to a second device via a plurality of physical channels, and utilize one of the plurality of physical channels as a dedicated timing channel with encoding thereon different from encoding on the other plurality of physical channels, and interface encoded data via the plurality of physical channels with the port for transmission and reception with a second device.