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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Dec. 07, 1999
Filed:
May. 28, 1997
Applicant:
Inventors:
Assignee:
3Com Corporation, Santa Clara, CA (US);
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
H04J / ;
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
370401 ; 370466 ;
Abstract
An enhanced cells-in-frames (CIF) network system for connecting a local-area-network (LAN) to an ATM network consists of CIF end-stations and an enhanced CIF attachment-device attached to a LAN segment. The enhanced CIF attachment-device in addition to performing its conventional functions, recognizes connection requests between local CIF end-stations and sets up short-cut forwarding between such end stations allowing them to transfer CIF frames directly over the Ethernet. In a conventional system such local traffic would broken up into a plurality of cells and sent over an ATM network.