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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Nov. 07, 2006
Filed:
Jun. 06, 2000
LI MO, Plano, TX (US);
David W. Wynn, Garland, TX (US);
George E. Bucklin, McKinney, TX (US);
Edward T. Sullivan, Highland Village, TX (US);
Francois Moore, McKinney, TX (US);
Abed Mohd Jaber, Plano, TX (US);
Edward Alton Harbin, Dallas, TX (US);
Nimer Ibrahim Yaseen, Allen, TX (US);
Snigdho C. Bardalai, Plano, TX (US);
David W. Terwilliger, Dallas, TX (US);
Michael J. Mezeul, Allen, TX (US);
Kai Chung Ko, Richardson, TX (US);
Li Mo, Plano, TX (US);
David W. Wynn, Garland, TX (US);
George E. Bucklin, McKinney, TX (US);
Edward T. Sullivan, Highland Village, TX (US);
Francois Moore, McKinney, TX (US);
Abed Mohd Jaber, Plano, TX (US);
Edward Alton Harbin, Dallas, TX (US);
Nimer Ibrahim Yaseen, Allen, TX (US);
Snigdho C. Bardalai, Plano, TX (US);
David W. Terwilliger, Dallas, TX (US);
Michael J. Mezeul, Allen, TX (US);
Kai Chung Ko, Richardson, TX (US);
Fujitsu Limited, Kawasaki, JP;
Abstract
A transport network includes a flexible topology for internally defining transport elements. The transport elements each include a port group having a plurality of geographically distributed ports from the transport network. Point-to-multipoint connectivity is defined between the ports in a port group. An identifier represents the port group as a single element to internal and/or external elements for protocol exchanges.