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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Feb. 09, 1993
Filed:
May. 12, 1989
Raymond E Tyrrell, Raleigh, NC (US);
O Lamar Bishop, Raleigh, NC (US);
William E Powell, Raleigh, NC (US);
Dale L Krisher, Raleigh, NC (US);
William H Stephenson, Raleigh, NC (US);
M Rodney Briscoe, Raleigh, NC (US);
Hal A Thorne, Wendell, NC (US);
Claude M Hurlocker, Raleigh, NC (US);
V Paul Runyon, Raleigh, NC (US);
Timothy J Williams, Raleigh, NC (US);
Joseph E Sutherland, Raleigh, NC (US);
William B Weeber, Apex, NC (US);
Michael J Gingell, Raleigh, NC (US);
Kenneth J Stoia, Raleigh, NC (US);
William J Fox, Raleigh, NC (US);
Jeffrey P Jones, Raleigh, NC (US);
Richard M Czerwiec, Raleigh, NC (US);
Ertugrul Baydar, Raleigh, NC (US);
Heinrich T Sonnenberg, Raleigh, NC (US);
Richard Peters, Raleigh, NC (US);
Gus C Sanders, Raleigh, NC (US);
Richard J Sanders, Jr, Raleigh, NC (US);
Francis G Noser, Raleigh, NC (US);
Joseph L Smith, Raleigh, NC (US);
Jak Yaemsiri, Raleigh, NC (US);
Camille A Abu-Saba, Clayton, NC (US);
Patrick M Farrell, Raleigh, NC (US);
Wenkwei Rou, Phoenix, AZ (US);
Victor W Wilkerson, Durham, NC (US);
Mohammad S Arani, Raleigh, NC (US);
Stephen C Dunning, Cary, NC (US);
Keith Bernhardt, Raleigh, NC (US);
Dana Merrill, Raleigh, NC (US);
Michael Sutton, Raleigh, NC (US);
Alcatel NA Network Systems Corp., Raleigh, NC (US);
Abstract
A synchronous optical transmission system for interfacing SONET formatted channels to lower speed channels in either a SONET format or otherwise. The transmission system incorporates a fiber transmission system, terminal multiplexers and add/drop multiplexers that in turn incorporate a plurality of features, such as parallel scrambling circuitry, frame synchronization circuitry and the like.