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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Jan. 22, 2008
Filed:
Jan. 15, 2005
Song Zhang, Kanata, CA;
Andrew Deczky, Ottawa, CA;
Morteza Ghodrat, Kanata, CA;
Nestor Amaya, Kanata, CA;
Song Zhang, Kanata, CA;
Andrew Deczky, Ottawa, CA;
Morteza Ghodrat, Kanata, CA;
Nestor Amaya, Kanata, CA;
CIENA Corporation, Linthicum, MD (US);
Abstract
Transporting an asynchronous transfer mode (ATM) stream through a bonding group involves properly splitting the stream into sub-streams to fit into individual member bearer's bandwidth at the transmit end, and properly merging the sub-streams to reconstruct the stream at the receive end. At the receive end, the cells can be put together in the proper sequence in a process of cell aggregation based on attached sequence numbers. Once the stream is re-constructed, the attached sequence numbers are replaced by the original field contents of the ATM headers. Methods of cell aggregation are described that assist the bonding scheme in working efficiently.