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Date of Patent:
Aug. 04, 2009

Filed:

Feb. 12, 2003
Applicants:

Sharat Prasad, San Jose, CA (US);

Marinica Rusu, Sunnyvale, CA (US);

Hiroshi Suzuki, Palo Alto, CA (US);

Shankar Venkataraman, Campbell, CA (US);

Stefano Binetti, Monza, IT;

Luca Della Chiesa, Milan, IT;

Inventors:

Sharat Prasad, San Jose, CA (US);

Marinica Rusu, Sunnyvale, CA (US);

Hiroshi Suzuki, Palo Alto, CA (US);

Shankar Venkataraman, Campbell, CA (US);

Stefano Binetti, Monza, IT;

Luca Della Chiesa, Milan, IT;

Assignee:

Cisco Technology, Inc., San Jose, CA (US);

Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Assistant Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
H04L 12/28 (2006.01); H04J 3/24 (2006.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
Abstract

A method of processing Ethernet signals for transport in an optical network system is disclosed. The method includes encapsulating Ethernet frames into EFP frames comprising a length header, a converged data link header, and a data area, and mapping the EFP frames into byte synchronous paths. The converged data link header replaces an Ethernet preamble of the Ethernet packet.


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