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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Apr. 14, 2015
Filed:
Mar. 29, 2013
Applicant:
Broadcom Corporation, Irvine, CA (US);
Inventor:
Ali Ghiasi, Cupertino, CA (US);
Assignee:
Broadcom Corporation, Irvine, CA (US);
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
H04L 12/28 (2006.01); H04L 12/773 (2013.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
H04L 45/60 (2013.01);
Abstract
A system and method for 10/40 gigabit Ethernet multi-lane gearbox. In one embodiment, a gearbox device includes one or more inputs on a line side of the device, the one or more inputs being configured to receive four asynchronous 10 Gbit/s Ethernet channels, a marking module that is configured to insert virtual lane markers into four data flows at defined intervals to produce four marked data flows, and a 4:n physical media attachment (PMA) module that is configured to generate one or more higher-rate data flows based on the four marked data flows.