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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Apr. 09, 2013
Filed:
Dec. 08, 2004
Uri El Zur, Irvine, CA (US);
Kan Frankie Fan, Diamond Bar, CA (US);
Scott S. Mcdaniel, Villa Park, CA (US);
Murali Rajagopal, Irvine, CA (US);
Uri El Zur, Irvine, CA (US);
Kan Frankie Fan, Diamond Bar, CA (US);
Scott S. McDaniel, Villa Park, CA (US);
Murali Rajagopal, Irvine, CA (US);
Broadcom Corporation, Irvine, CA (US);
Abstract
Systems and methods that provide a unified infrastructure over Ethernet are provided. In one embodiment, a method of communicating between an Ethernet-based system and a non-Ethernet-based network may include, for example, one or more of the following: generating an Ethernet frame that comprises a proxy payload, a proxy association header and an Ethernet header, the Ethernet header relating to a control proxy element; sending the Ethernet frame over an Ethernet-based network to the control proxy element; generating a non-Ethernet frame that comprises the proxy payload and a proxy header; and sending the non-Ethernet frame over a non-Ethernet-based network.