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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Feb. 21, 2017
Filed:
Jun. 06, 2014
Cisco Technology, Inc., San Jose, CA (US);
William Frank Edwards, Livermore, CA (US);
Keith Frank Tharp, San Jose, CA (US);
Ken Naumann, Livermore, CA (US);
Amrik Bains, Livermore, CA (US);
Clark Carty, Brunswick, OH (US);
Alan Yee, Los Gatos, CA (US);
Arvind Kansal, Cupertino, CA (US);
Samir Bouadjel, Los Gatos, CA (US);
Cisco Technology, Inc., San Jose, CA (US);
Abstract
Power Over Ethernet (POE)/universal power over Ethernet (UPoE) may be enabled at multigigabit port-channel connections. This may allow for additional speed support in auto-negotiation messages while employing multigigabit speeds. An integrated connector module (referred to herein as a 'ICM') compatible with UPoE with a modified local physical layer (PHY) circuit may be capable of supporting multi-gigabit data rates (such as between 1 G to 10 G, e.g., 2.5 G and 5 G) as to not limit the data rates to 1 G. The ICM may provide multi-gig data transmission through a first plurality of pins comprising a multi-gig data pin area. Furthermore, the ICM may provide UPoE power to support the multi-gig transmission through a second plurality of pins comprising a UPoE power pin area.