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Date of Patent:
May. 02, 2006

Filed:

Sep. 14, 2000
Applicants:

Alnoor M. Shivji, Fremont, CA (US);

Sunil Tomar, Fremont, CA (US);

Shashij Singh, San Jose, CA (US);

Inventors:

Alnoor M. Shivji, Fremont, CA (US);

Sunil Tomar, Fremont, CA (US);

Shashij Singh, San Jose, CA (US);

Assignee:

CIENA Corporation, Linthicum, MD (US);

Attorneys:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
H04J 3/02 (2006.01); H04L 12/50 (2006.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
Abstract

Multiple streams of bits are received. One or more bits are selected from a stream of bits based, at least in part, on a space control register value and a time control register value. In one embodiment, a time control register stores a value indicating a selected bit from a sequence of bits, a counter counts bits in the sequence of bits from a predetermined bit, and a comparator is coupled to the time control register and to the counter to generate a load signal when a value stored in the time control register and a value provided by the counter are equal. The load signal causes the latch to load a value output by the multiplexer.


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