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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Dec. 30, 2008
Filed:
Sep. 07, 2005
Laurent Ciavaglia, Fontainebleau, FR;
Nicolas Le Sauze, Bures-sur-Yvette, FR;
An GE, Plano, TX (US);
Laurent Ciavaglia, Fontainebleau, FR;
Nicolas Le Sauze, Bures-sur-Yvette, FR;
An Ge, Plano, TX (US);
Alcatel, Paris, FR;
Abstract
In a network including an optical link transporting packet streams of successive optical packets separated by voids, the station includes a transmission device () coupled to the link at an insertion point in order to inject optical packets into the link. At a detection point on the link, upstream of the insertion point, a detection device () observes the packet streams transported to this detection point. As a function of this observation each packet awaiting transmission and transmitted by the transmission device () causes the formation at the insertion point of a downstream packet stream containing the transmitted packet interposed between first and second packets delimiting a void of the upstream stream. The detection device () forms a transmission control signal (ACK) such that in the event of transmission as a function of this control signal, any transmitted packet is attached to at least one of the first and second packets.