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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Nov. 16, 1999
Filed:
Aug. 30, 1996
Applicant:
Inventors:
Robert Simon, Santa Barbara, CA (US);
Mark Rumer, Santa Barbara, CA (US);
Robert A Land, Santa Barbara, CA (US);
David E Swanson, Goleta, CA (US);
Assignee:
Cisco Technology, Inc., San Jose, CA (US);
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
H04L / ;
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
370465 ; 370474 ;
Abstract
A frame relay communications network consists of a number of interconnected nodes. The network nodes include segmentation and reassembly device for fragmenting variable length frames of user data into packets of a predefined length. A preferred embodiment uses ATM AAL5 segmentation and reassembly to construct cells. Header and trailer information is added to each of the cells for transport across the frame relay network.