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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Dec. 22, 2015
Filed:
Sep. 25, 2013
System and method for exchanging channel, physical layer and data layer information and capabilities
Applicant:
Broadcom Corporation, Irvine, CA (US);
Inventors:
Wael William Diab, San Francisco, CA (US);
Nicholas Ilyadis, Merrimack, NH (US);
Sesha Thalpasai Panguluri, Cupertino, CA (US);
Assignee:
BROADCOM CORPORATION, Irvine, CA (US);
Primary Examiner:
Assistant Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
H04L 12/10 (2006.01); H04L 12/26 (2006.01); H04L 29/06 (2006.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
H04L 43/50 (2013.01); H04L 12/10 (2013.01); H04L 69/24 (2013.01); Y02B 60/43 (2013.01);
Abstract
A system and method for exchanging channel, physical layer and data layer information and capabilities. The exchange of channel, physical layer and data layer capabilities enables optimal solutions for the provision of network services. In one embodiment, channel, physical layer and data layer capabilities are exchanged during an auto-negotiation process or LLDP messaging.