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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Mar. 01, 2016
Filed:
Mar. 31, 2014
Applicant:
Cisco Technology, Inc., San Jose, CA (US);
Inventors:
Pascal Thubert, La Colle sur Loup, FR;
Charles Calvin Byers, Wheaton, IL (US);
Douglas Chan, San Jose, CA (US);
Assignee:
Cisco Technology, Inc., San Jose, CA (US);
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
H04L 12/721 (2013.01); H04L 29/06 (2006.01); H04B 10/27 (2013.01); H04B 10/50 (2013.01); H04B 10/114 (2013.01); H04B 10/116 (2013.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
H04L 45/66 (2013.01); H04B 10/116 (2013.01); H04B 10/1149 (2013.01); H04B 10/27 (2013.01); H04B 10/502 (2013.01); H04L 69/22 (2013.01);
Abstract
In one embodiment, a method comprises receiving, by an apparatus, a Media Access Control (MAC) frame destined for a destination device; dividing, by the apparatus, the MAC frame into frame fragments; coding the frame fragments into encoded cells; and causing, by the apparatus, transmission of selected subsets of the encoded cells, as distinct flows of the encoded cells, by respective optical physical layer transmitter devices reachable by the destination device.