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Date of Patent:
Sep. 30, 2014

Filed:

Mar. 09, 2010
Applicants:

Alberto Bellato, Bermareggio, IT;

Pietro Vittorio Grandi, Milan, IT;

Matteo Gumier, Sesto Calende, IT;

Sergio Belotti, Vimercate, IT;

Stephen John Trowbridge, Boulder, CO (US);

Inventors:

Alberto Bellato, Bermareggio, IT;

Pietro Vittorio Grandi, Milan, IT;

Matteo Gumier, Sesto Calende, IT;

Sergio Belotti, Vimercate, IT;

Stephen John Trowbridge, Boulder, CO (US);

Assignee:

Alcatel Lucent, Boulogne Billancourt, FR;

Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
H04J 3/16 (2006.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
H04J 3/1652 (2013.01); H04J 3/1658 (2013.01);
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.


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