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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Dec. 09, 2003
Filed:
Sep. 10, 1999
Hakki C. Cankaya, Dallas, TX (US);
Yijun Xiong, Plano, TX (US);
Marc L. J. Vandenhoute, Dallas, TX (US);
Alcatel, Paris, FR;
Abstract
A system and method for assembling multiple multicast data packets into a multicast burst according to multiple multicast burstification classes and switching the multicast burst through an optical burst switched network. To switch multicast data packets through an optical burst switched network according to the present invention, multicast data packets are first assembled into a multicast burst at an electronic ingress edge router according to a plurality of multicast burstification classes. The multicast burst is then switched through the optical burst-switched network to the destined electronic egress edge routers, disassembled back into multicast data packets and transmitted to multiple destinations.