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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Jan. 02, 2007
Filed:
Mar. 30, 2001
David R. Stiles, Los Gatos, CA (US);
Siegfried Luft, Vancouver, CA;
Lawrence Ong, Coquitlam, CA;
James C. Pang, Vancouver, CA;
David R. Stiles, Los Gatos, CA (US);
Siegfried Luft, Vancouver, CA;
Lawrence Ong, Coquitlam, CA;
James C. Pang, Vancouver, CA;
Redback Networks, Inc., San Jose, CA (US);
Abstract
A ring network element and the ring network architectures it enables. According to one embodiment of the invention, a single network element includes a full TDM cross-connect and a multiple ring unit. The full TDM cross-connect is coupled to every line card slot in the single network element with the same amount of bandwidth connection. In addition, the full TDM cross-connect is programmable on an STS-1 basis. The multiple ring unit allows for the simultaneous support of multiple TDM rings.