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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Oct. 29, 2013
Filed:
Dec. 18, 2009
Applicant:
Mark A. Elias, Eastpointe, MI (US);
Inventor:
Mark A. Elias, Eastpointe, MI (US);
Assignee:
AT&T Intellectual Property I, L.P., Atlanta, GA (US);
Attorneys:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
H04L 12/26 (2006.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
Abstract
A cell-based router comprising a controller to receive provisioning information including a transport rate of at least one frame-based router among a group of frame-based routers in a communication network, adjust cell transmission rate to avoid packet losses at the frame-based routers, where cell-based traffic is routed to a bidirectional cell and frame based switch according to updated bandwidth comprising the adjusted cell transmission rate, where the bidirectional cell and frame based switch is coupled to the cell-based router and the frame-based routers.