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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Nov. 11, 2003
Filed:
May. 05, 2000
Vinay K. Bannai, Mountain View, CA (US);
Charles F. Barry, Campbell, CA (US);
Inwhan Choi, Santa Clara, CA (US);
Jason C. Fan, Mountain View, CA (US);
Robert F. Kalman, Cupertino, CA (US);
Richard Lindquist, San Jose, CA (US);
Sohail Mallick, Fremont, CA (US);
Atul Shinde, Santa Clara, CA (US);
Seshadri Srinivasan, Cupertino, CA (US);
Robert Stillman, Los Altos, CA (US);
Warren Watts, Sunnyvale, CA (US);
Luminous Networks, Inc., Cupertino, CA (US);
Abstract
An architecture for transport of multiple services in connectionless packet-based networks is described herein, along with the packet format used for data transport in this architecture. The architecture supports transport of both connectionless packetized data and framed data from synchronous leased lines. The architecture supports transparent packetization of incoming DS1 data. The architecture works for mesh architectures but is optimized for OSI Layer (crossconnect) and Layer (Virtual LAN, or VLAN) services and for ring topologies, since for these services in a ring no path setup is required using a label distribution protocol. In addition, it simultaneously supports OSI Layer , Layer , and Layer services.