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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Aug. 28, 2012
Filed:
Dec. 20, 2010
Michael Eiselt, Kirchhelm, DE;
Michael Eiselt, Kirchhelm, DE;
ADVA AG Optical Networking, Martinsried, DE;
Abstract
The invention relates to a fractional bit encoder () and a method for encoding a data stream into code word identifiers for a physical line encoder (), wherein said fractional bit encoder () comprises a (1:K) demultiplexer () for a de-multiplexing a received data stream into a predetermined number (K) of bit streams, a first (K:n) multiplexer () for re-multiplexing a first number (K) of said K bit streams onto n parallel lines transporting n re-multiplexed bit streams and a second multiplexer () re-multiplexing a second number (K) of said K bit streams (K:1) onto a single line transporting one further re-multiplexed bit stream, wherein n=[ld(M)] and M being a configurable number of different code word identifiers, a class detector () which evaluates the first n re-multiplexed bit streams to determine a class of the respective bit combination and a word encoder () which encodes the respective bit combination depending on the determined class of the bit combination.