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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Aug. 21, 2012
Filed:
Dec. 02, 2010
Dimitrios Giannakopoulos, Methuen, MA (US);
Matthew Ornes, Andover, MA (US);
Matthew Brown, Kinburn, CA;
Tracy MA, Westford, MA (US);
Dimitrios Giannakopoulos, Methuen, MA (US);
Matthew Ornes, Andover, MA (US);
Matthew Brown, Kinburn, CA;
Tracy Ma, Westford, MA (US);
Applied Micro Circuits Corporation, San Diego, CA (US);
Abstract
A system and method are provided for transporting a serial stream via a lower speed network using multiple parallel paths. At a transmitter, an optical or electromagnetic waveform is accepted representing a serial stream of digital information, and unbundled into n virtual information streams. Each virtual information stream is divided into a sequence of segments. Each segment is encapsulated, creating a sequence of packets by adding a start indicator to the beginning of each segment, and a terminate indicator to the end of each segment. Each packet is disinterleaved across m lanes and reinterleaved into n branches of framed data. Optical or electromagnetic waveforms representing the framed data are transmitted via n network branches. A receiver is also provided, which essentially reverses the above-described transmission method.