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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Sep. 09, 2003
Filed:
Dec. 28, 1999
Andrew G Tomlins, Harlow, GB;
Nortel Networks Limited, St. Laurent, CA;
Abstract
A serial interface for interfacing communications traffic, e.g. frame based voice traffic, with a cell or packet based communications network, the interface comprises; a transmit unit and a receive unit, the units being coupled via a first serial line and one or more further serial lines. The transmit unit has packetising means for packing the communications traffic into micro-packets, each having a header portion containing control information and a payload portion. The payloads and control information are transmitted in parallel respectively over the first and further serial lines to the receive unit The receive unit has means for receiving the transmitted payloads and for relating the corresponding control information thereto.