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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Apr. 01, 2008
Filed:
Nov. 10, 2003
Stephen J. Brolin, Livingston, NJ (US);
David Michael Colven, Dallas, TX (US);
Stephen J. Brolin, Livingston, NJ (US);
David Michael Colven, Dallas, TX (US);
Fujitsu Limited, Kawasaki, JP;
Abstract
A system for intercommunicating data traffic provides the capability to connect external interfaces that use one third or less of the OC3 bandwidth capacity in a reduced bandwidth mode that reduces system cost, while automatically switching to the full bandwidth mode to allow connection to external interfaces that utilize the full OC3 bandwidth capacity. A system for intercommunicating data traffic comprises a backplane having a plurality of data traffic communications connections operable to communicate data traffic, the backplane having a plurality of data rates of operation and a Service Unit having a plurality of external data traffic communications interfaces and a data traffic communications interface to the data traffic communications connections of the backplane, the Service Unit operable to communicate data between the plurality of external data traffic communications interfaces and the data traffic communications interface, the Service Unit further including a multiplexer operable to multiplex data from the plurality of external data traffic communications interfaces to the data traffic communications interface in a plurality of modes of operation.