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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Sep. 26, 2017
Filed:
Jan. 14, 2015
Alcatel-lucent Usa Inc., Murray Hill, NJ (US);
Diana L. Lorenz, Naperville, IL (US);
Mark G. Bradac, Genoa, IL (US);
Steven C. Martin, Naperville, IL (US);
Greg Martin, Lisle, IL (US);
Wayne R. Wilcox, Oswego, IL (US);
Alcatel-Lucent USA Inc., Murray Hill, NJ (US);
Abstract
Network elements within a network are configured to transport Ethernet traffic and non-Ethernet traffic over a same medium. The network elements can generate and process multi-frames that include the Ethernet traffic and non-Ethernet traffic. Each of the plurality of group slots includes a first set of bytes allocated to carry the non-Ethernet traffic and a second set of bytes allocated to carry the Ethernet traffic. At least one group slot of the plurality of group slots includes a timestamp, and the network elements are further configured to use the timestamp to reconstruct the original spacing between packets of the Ethernet traffic.