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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Dec. 25, 2012
Filed:
May. 22, 2009
Alessandro Barbieri, Santa Clara, CA (US);
Adam Jonathan Carter, San Jose, CA (US);
David C. Lai, Mountain View, CA (US);
Thomas Scheibe, Oakland, CA (US);
Alessandro Barbieri, Santa Clara, CA (US);
Adam Jonathan Carter, San Jose, CA (US);
David C. Lai, Mountain View, CA (US);
Thomas Scheibe, Oakland, CA (US);
Cisco Technology, Inc., San Jose, CA (US);
Abstract
In one embodiment, a networking device may include a network port and be configured to receive a transceiver module card in the network port. The networking device may detect whether the transceiver module card is a single channel card or a multi-channel card, where the single channel card includes a single transceiver module and the multi-channel card includes multiple transceiver modules. The networking device may transmit data to the transceiver card either as a single channel de-multiplexed over multiple lanes or as multiple independent channels corresponding to the multiple lanes based on whether the transceiver module card is the single channel card or the multi-channel card. The networking device may transmit data over each of the lanes at one data rate regardless whether of the transceiver module card is the single channel card or the multi-channel card.