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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Feb. 24, 2015
Filed:
Sep. 08, 2010
James Harley, Nepean, CA;
Ronald J. Gagnon, Nepean, CA;
James Harley, Nepean, CA;
Ronald J. Gagnon, Nepean, CA;
Rockstar Consortium US LP, Plano, TX (US);
Abstract
Bit-transparent muxing of an input signal for transport through an optical communications network is disclosed. A stuffing ratio is based on a line rate of the input signal and a data rate of a fixed length container. A number (NFS) of fixed stuffs is computed based on the stuffing ratio. The input signal and NFS fixed stuffs are inserted into the payload of the container, and the computed number of NFS are stored in the container's overhead. In some embodiments, the container is an overclocked OTU-(OTU+) frame having a line rate of 44.6 Gb/s. This enables bit-transparent mux/demux of four nominal 10 Gig signals having line rates within a range of between 7.6 Gb/s and 10.4 Gb/s, or a single nominal 40 Gig signal having a line rate within a range of between 38.8 Gb/s and 41.6 Gb/s.