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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Apr. 18, 2006
Filed:
Jan. 18, 2000
Applicant:
Steven H. Goody, Santa Rosa, CA (US);
Inventor:
Steven H. Goody, Santa Rosa, CA (US);
Assignee:
Cisco Technology, Inc., San Jose, CA (US);
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
H04J 12/28 (2006.01); H04J 3/16 (2006.01); H04J 3/22 (2006.01); G06F 15/16 (2006.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
Abstract
A local area network/wide area network (LAN/WAN) switch is presented which aggregates LAN traffic onto SONET/SDH transport streams in a programmable manner. The system can concentrate Ethernet packets and map the data onto SONET streams at data rates varying from STS-to STS-C. Depending on the bandwidth available in the WAN interface, different numbers and combinations of STS-n streams can be formed. The system allows for efficient and flexible mapping of LAN traffic onto a WAN for transport over fiber optic networks.