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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Apr. 02, 2013
Filed:
Feb. 06, 2009
Ting-kuang Chiang, Saratoga, CA (US);
Edward E. Sprague, Woodside, CA (US);
Ting-Kuang Chiang, Saratoga, CA (US);
Edward E. Sprague, Woodside, CA (US);
Infinera Corporation, Sunnyvale, CA (US);
Abstract
A network may include an ingress node that is configured to receive a client signal having a client rate that is one of a multiple different client rates, asynchronously map the client signal into a first frame of a first rate, asynchronously map the first frame into a second frame of a second rate, and output the second frame on the network; an intermediate node that is configured to receive the second frame, recover the first frame from the second frame, asynchronously map the first frame into a third frame of a third rate, and output the third frame on the network, where the intermediate node does not recover the client signal from the first frame; and an egress node that is configured to receive the third frame, recover the first frame from the third frame, recover the client signal from the first frame, and output the client signal.