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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
May. 17, 2011
Filed:
May. 25, 2006
James T. Theodoras, Ii, Plano, TX (US);
James T. Theodoras, II, Plano, TX (US);
Cisco Technology, Inc., San Jose, CA (US);
Abstract
A method, an apparatus, and a system where multiple lower bandwidth optic Ethernet (e.g. 1000Base-FX) signals can be interleaved or encoded onto a single fiber optic link by overclocking the physical layer elements in such a manner as to be transparent to the data link layer and other higher network layers in the Open Systems Interconnection Reference Model (OSI Model) are provided. Such embodiments may provide increased port density over the existing fiber optic gigabit Ethernet (GbE) standards. In embodiments where multiple GbE signals are not channelized, overclocking the physical layer elements may provide increased bandwidth for a single link over existing fiber optic GbE standards.