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The patent badge is an abbreviated version of the USPTO patent document. The patent badge covers the following: Patent number, Date patent was issued, Date patent was filed, Title of the patent, Applicant, Inventor, Assignee, Attorney firm, Primary examiner, Assistant examiner, CPCs, and Abstract. The patent badge does contain a link to the full patent document (in Adobe Acrobat format, aka pdf). To download or print any patent click here.
Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Apr. 18, 2000
Filed:
Nov. 08, 1996
Applicant:
Inventor:
Russell W Bell, Austin, TX (US);
Assignee:
Advanced Micro Devices, Inc., Sunnyvale, CA (US);
Attorneys:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
H04L / ;
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
370445 ; 370484 ;
Abstract
An improved network adapter and architecture which combines the Ethernet bus access protocol with a digital subscriber line-based physical layer driver to provide improved performance. The use of a digital subscriber line-based physical layer driver, such as the DSL physical layer, in conjunction with the Ethernet protocol provides low cost and compatibility advantages associated with Ethernet in conjunction with the improved reliability, robustness, bandwidth, and noise resistance of the DSL layer. This allows standard Ethernet networking on noisy transmission media such as category 3 twisted pair, power lines, and other previously unusable channels.