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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
May. 27, 2008
Filed:
Aug. 05, 2002
Chi-yin Wong, Los Gatos, CA (US);
Chi-Yin Wong, Los Gatos, CA (US);
Network Equipment Technologies, Inc., Fremont, CA (US);
Abstract
A method for converting data for a interface module and a network data plane is provided. The data is converted using an interface in a telecommunications system. The method includes receiving data in a plurality of data formats through the interface module. The plurality of data formats include a variable format of a variable-length and a fixed format of a fixed-length. The data in the plurality of data formats is then converted into a predetermined network data plane format and sent in the network data plane format to the network data plane. The method further includes receiving data in the predetermined network data plane format from the network data plane. Then, a format in the plurality of data formats to convert the data received from the network data plane to is determined and the data in the network data plane data format is converted to the determined data format. The data in the determined data format is sent to the interface module.