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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Oct. 18, 2011
Filed:
Jun. 16, 2006
Xavier Boutaud DE LA Combe, Trebeurden, FR;
Pierre Dupuy, Paris, FR;
Alf Neustadt, Stuttgart, DE;
Jean Thiberville, Trebeurden, FR;
Xavier Boutaud De La Combe, Trebeurden, FR;
Pierre Dupuy, Paris, FR;
Alf Neustadt, Stuttgart, DE;
Jean Thiberville, Trebeurden, FR;
Alcatel Lucent, Paris, FR;
Abstract
An apparatus (D) is dedicated to processing E1 data frames in communications network equipment (ETPL) including at least one E1 line interface unit (LIU). The apparatus (D) includes a processor adapted, on receiving from at least one E1 interface unit (LIU) at least one E1-type frame addressed to a given E1 destination port, to encapsulate that E1-type frame in a payload data field of an Ethernet frame in order to send it to an Ethernet destination port providing access to the given E1 destination port.