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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Feb. 28, 2006
Filed:
Jun. 04, 2001
Jason Dove, Novato, CA (US);
Brian Semple, Novato, CA (US);
Andre Tanguay, Santa Rosa, CA (US);
James Lotz, Napa, CA (US);
Jason Dove, Novato, CA (US);
Brian Semple, Novato, CA (US);
Andre Tanguay, Santa Rosa, CA (US);
James Lotz, Napa, CA (US);
Calix Networks, Inc., Petaluma, CA (US);
Abstract
Traffic is transported within a system in the form of TDM packets. These packets are generated at source line units and transported from the line units to a switch. The switch routes the packets to appropriate target line units based on information contained within the packet. At the switch, packets from the source line units may be merged. A gather function relies on each of the line units sourcing packets to exclusively drive lines at software-assigned timeslots within the packet. The switch performs a simple OR function of each byte in merging the packet payloads.