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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Sep. 30, 2014
Filed:
Mar. 09, 2010
Alberto Bellato, Bermareggio, IT;
Pietro Vittorio Grandi, Milan, IT;
Matteo Gumier, Sesto Calende, IT;
Sergio Belotti, Vimercate, IT;
Stephen John Trowbridge, Boulder, CO (US);
Alberto Bellato, Bermareggio, IT;
Pietro Vittorio Grandi, Milan, IT;
Matteo Gumier, Sesto Calende, IT;
Sergio Belotti, Vimercate, IT;
Stephen John Trowbridge, Boulder, CO (US);
Alcatel Lucent, Boulogne Billancourt, FR;
Abstract
An exemplary method and apparatus are provided for data transmission in an optical transport network that includes receiving client data from a client, mapping the client data into a frame structure, mapping the frame structure into tributary slots of a data transport structure, and transmitting the data transport structure. The data transport structure contains a fixed number of tributary slots and the size of the frame structure is selectable in granularity of the tributary slots of the data transport structure.