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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Dec. 05, 2000
Filed:
Feb. 13, 1998
Peter Si-Sheng Wang, Cupertino, CA (US);
Ismail Dalgic, Mountain View, CA (US);
Kenneth Araujo, Sunnyvale, CA (US);
3Com Corporation, Santa Clara, CA (US);
Abstract
An apparatus for converting frame-type transmissions to packet-type transmissions. In one embodiment, the apparatus comprises a medium access controller (MAC) coupled to a packet-based network and multiple packet assembler/disassemblers (PADs). The PADs include a data link layer (DLL) PAD coupled to the MAC, a high level data link control (HDLC) PAD coupled to the DLL PAD, a network layer (NL) PAD coupled to the DLL PAD, and a NL/frame alignment sequence-bit-rate allocation signal (NL/FAS-BAS) PAD coupled to the DLL PAD. Multiple detection units are coupled to respective PADs, wherein each of the plurality of detection units detects a frame-type transmission.