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Date of Patent:
May. 19, 2015

Filed:

May. 11, 2007
Applicants:

Christopher N. Del Regno, Rowlett, TX (US);

Howard H. Chiu, Plano, TX (US);

Donald Pitchforth, Jr., Rockwall, TX (US);

Terry W. Mcginnis, Dallas, TX (US);

Ronald Dennis Day, Garland, TX (US);

Inventors:

Christopher N. Del Regno, Rowlett, TX (US);

Howard H. Chiu, Plano, TX (US);

Donald Pitchforth, Jr., Rockwall, TX (US);

Terry W. McGinnis, Dallas, TX (US);

Ronald Dennis Day, Garland, TX (US);

Assignee:

VERIZON PATENT AND LICENSING INC., Basking Ridge, NJ (US);

Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
G06F 15/173 (2006.01); H04L 12/28 (2006.01); H04L 12/46 (2006.01); H04L 29/06 (2006.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
H04L 12/2856 (2013.01); H04L 12/4633 (2013.01); H04L 69/08 (2013.01);
Abstract

A method includes establishing a first pseudowire between a first switching device and a second switching device. The method also includes receiving customer traffic that includes time division multiplexed data and formatting the time division multiplexed data as packets. The method further includes identifying a destination for the customer traffic, identifying the first pseudowire for forwarding the customer traffic and forwarding the customer traffic via the first pseudowire to the second switching device.


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