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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Dec. 11, 2012
Filed:
Nov. 21, 2011
Applicants:
Joseph A. Curclo, Jr., Roseville, CA (US);
Mark A. Gravel, Roseville, CA (US);
Daniel J. Dove, Colfax, CA (US);
Inventors:
Joseph A. Curclo, Jr., Roseville, CA (US);
Mark A. Gravel, Roseville, CA (US);
Daniel J. Dove, Colfax, CA (US);
Assignee:
Hewlett-Packard Development Company, L.P., Houston, TX (US);
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Assistant Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
H04J 3/00 (2006.01); H04L 1/00 (2006.01); H04L 12/28 (2006.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
Abstract
A plurality of media access controllers (MACs) are time division multiplexed with one or more serializer/deserializer (SerDes) devices, wherein there are more MACs than SerDes devices and/or a single multi-rate Ethernet MAC is able to communicate with a multi-rate PHY spanning speeds from 10 megabits per second to 10 gigabits per second using the same framing mechanism and structure.