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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
May. 17, 2011
Filed:
Oct. 16, 2007
Ravi Subrahmanyan, Windham, NH (US);
Xingen James Ren, Acton, MA (US);
Dimitrios Giannakopoulos, Methuen, MA (US);
Ravi Subrahmanyan, Windham, NH (US);
Xingen James Ren, Acton, MA (US);
Dimitrios Giannakopoulos, Methuen, MA (US);
Applied Micro Circuits Corporation, San Diego, CA (US);
Abstract
A system and method are presented for providing packet and time division multiplex (TDM) services in a data communication interface. The method accepts packets at a first rate over a packet interface, and transfers time-sensitive data in the packets as packet data units (PDUs) having a smaller number of bits than a packet and a second rate, faster than the first rate. The method transforms the PDUs into frames in a first TDM protocol. Typically, the PDUs are transformed into units having a smaller number of bits than the PDU and a third rate, faster than the second rate. Then, the TDM frames are transmitted over a line interface.