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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Mar. 21, 2006
Filed:
Oct. 26, 1999
Applicants:
Tom Q. Wellbaum, Beaverton, OR (US);
Daniel E. Klausmeier, Menlo Park, CA (US);
Inventors:
Tom Q. Wellbaum, Beaverton, OR (US);
Daniel E. Klausmeier, Menlo Park, CA (US);
Assignee:
CIENA Corporation, Linthicum, MD (US);
Primary Examiner:
Assistant Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
H04L 12/56 (2006.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
Abstract
Switch frames are arbitrarily concatenated to allow for any available time slots to be used for carrying concatenated switch frames. Methods and apparatus transport switch frames in available time slots, and keep track of which time slots correspond to a group of concatenated switch frames. The switch frames are transported through the switch and synchronized on the outgoing side of the switch so that arbitrarily concatenated switch frames are synchronized with each other.