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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Feb. 19, 2008
Filed:
Dec. 17, 2001
Addepalli Sateesh Kumar, Menlo Park, CA (US);
Chandrasekaran Nageswara Gupta, San Jose, CA (US);
Tushar Ramanlal Shah, Milpitas, CA (US);
Debaditya Mukherjee, Fremont, CA (US);
Thomas Yat Chung Woo, Red Bank, NJ (US);
Khalid Seikh, Fremont, CA (US);
Jai Prakash Agrawal, San Jose, CA (US);
Addepalli Sateesh Kumar, Menlo Park, CA (US);
Chandrasekaran Nageswara Gupta, San Jose, CA (US);
Tushar Ramanlal Shah, Milpitas, CA (US);
Debaditya Mukherjee, Fremont, CA (US);
Thomas Yat Chung Woo, Red Bank, NJ (US);
Khalid Seikh, Fremont, CA (US);
Jai Prakash Agrawal, San Jose, CA (US);
RMI Corporation, Cupertino, CA (US);
Abstract
To more fully utilize the available bandwidth of a network link, network nodes in accordance with the present invention allow TDM data to be combined with packet data. A Packet/TDM cross connect switch, having both a TDM switch and a packet switch, is used in these embodiments. Data packets are transformed into TDM packet columns. The TDM packet columns are combined with standard TDM data columns in the payload of a TDM data frame. Data packets may be sorted based on a priority scheme, in which high priority data packets are given precedence over lower priority data. However, both high priority and low priority may be combined in a TDM packet column.