Bonding device and method

• US 10,341,261 B2
• Filed: 01/29/2018
• Issued: 07/02/2019
• Est. Priority Date: 10/05/2001
• Status: Expired due to Fees

• Current Assignee: TQ Delta LLC (Techquity Capital Management, LLC)
• Original Assignee: TQ Delta LLC (Techquity Capital Management, LLC)
• Inventors: Tzannes, Marcos C., Reiter, Edmund, Cahill, Christopher
• Primary Examiner(s): Ho, Duc C
• Application Number:
  US15/882,619
• Publication Number:
  US 20180152395A1
• Time in Patent Office: 519 Days
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 12/5601 Transfer mode dependent, e.g. ATM
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 2012/5615 Network termination, e.g. NT1, NT2, PBX
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 2012/565 Sequence integrity
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 2012/5672 Multiplexing, e.g. coding, scrambling
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 2012/5674 Synchronisation, timing recovery or alignment
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 25/14 Channel dividing arrangements , i.e. in which a single bit stream is divided between several baseband channels and reassembled at the receiver
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 49/3081 ATM peripheral units, e.g. policing, insertion or extraction
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 49/60 Software-defined switches

Abstract

A device that includes a plurality of transceivers configurable to simultaneously operate with a combination of bonded and unbonded transceivers. A first transceiver of the plurality of transceivers is operable at a first data rate, and a second transceiver of the plurality of transceivers is simultaneously operable at a second data rate that is different than the first data rate. The first and second transceivers are operable as bonded transceivers and wherein a third transceiver, of the plurality of transceivers, is simultaneously operable at a third data rate and the third transceiver is not bonded with any other transceiver.

Claims

1. A communications device comprising:

a plurality of transceivers configurable to simultaneously operate with a combination of bonded and unbonded transceivers, wherein a first DSL transceiver of the plurality of transceivers is operable at a first data rate, and a second DSL transceiver of the plurality of transceivers is simultaneously operable at a second data rate that is different than the first data rate, wherein the first and second transceivers are operable as bonded transceivers and wherein the first and second bonded DSL transceivers are connected to a multi-pair multiplexer and are operable to transmit a single stream of ATM cells or packets on two substreams over two twisted wire pairs from a service provider to a first DSL subscriber,

and wherein a third DSL transceiver, of the plurality of transceivers, is simultaneously operable at a third data rate, wherein the third transceiver is not bonded with any other transceiver and wherein the third DSL transceiver is not connected to the multi-pair multiplexer and is operable to transmit a single stream of ATM cells or packets over one twisted wire pair from the service provider to a second DSL subscriber.

2. The communications device of claim 1, wherein the transceivers are capable of transmitting an ATM cell stream.

3. The communications device of claim 1, wherein the transceivers are capable of transmitting Ethernet packets or Internet Protocol packets.

4. The communications device of claim 1, wherein the first and second DSL transceivers generate a single high data rate connection between a service provider and a subscriber.

5. The communications device of claim 1, wherein first and the second DSL transceivers are operable to utilize at least one parameter associated with operation of at least one of the first and second DSL transceivers to reduce a difference in latency between the first and second DSL transceivers.

6. A communications method, in a plurality of transceivers configurable to simultaneously operate with a combination of bonded and unbonded transceivers, comprising:

operating a first DSL transceiver, of the plurality of transceivers, at a first data rate;

simultaneously operating a second DSL transceiver, of the plurality of transceivers, at a second data rate that is different than the first data rate, wherein the first and second transceivers are operated as bonded transceivers and wherein the first and second bonded transceivers are connected to a multi-pair multiplexer and are operable to transmit a single stream of ATM cells or packets on two substreams over two twisted wire pairs from a service provider to a first DSL subscriber; and

simultaneously operating a third DSL transceiver;

of the plurality of transceivers, at a third data rate, wherein the third transceiver is not bonded with any other transceiver and wherein the third DSL transceiver is not connected to the multi-pair multiplexer and is operable to transmit a single stream of KIM cells or packets over one twisted wire pair from the service provider to a second DSL subscriber.

7. The method of claim 6, wherein the transceivers are capable of transmitting an ATM cell stream.

8. The method of claim 6, wherein the transceivers are capable of transmitting Ethernet packets or Internet Protocol packets.

9. The method of claim 6, wherein the first and second DSL transceivers generate a single high data rate connection between a service provider and a subscriber.

10. The method of claim 6, wherein first and the second DSL transceivers are operable to utilize at least one parameter associated with operation of at least one of the first and second DSL transceivers to reduce a difference in latency between the first and second DSL transceivers.

11. A non-transitory processor-readable information storage media, the information storage media including instructions that when executed by the processor cause to be performed a process, in a plurality of transceivers configurable to simultaneously operate with a combination of bonded and unbonded transceivers, comprising:

operating a first DSL transceiver, of the plurality of transceivers, at a first data rate;

simultaneously operating a second DSL transceiver, of the plurality of transceivers, at a second data rate that is different than the first data rate, wherein the first and second transceivers are operated as bonded transceivers and wherein the first and second bonded transceivers are connected to a multi-pair multiplexer and are operable to transmit a single stream of ATM cells or packets on two substreams over two twisted wire pairs from a service provider to a first DSL subscriber; and

simultaneously operating a third DSL transceiver, of the plurality of transceivers, at a third data rate, wherein the third transceiver is not bonded with any other transceiver and wherein the third DSL transceiver is not connected to the multi-pair multiplexer and is operable to transmit a single stream of ATM cells or packets over one twisted wire pair from the service provider to a second DSL subscriber.

12. The media of claim 11, wherein the transceivers are capable of transmitting an ATM cell stream.

13. The media of claim 11, wherein the transceivers are capable of transmitting Ethernet packets or Internet Protocol packets.

14. The media of claim 11, wherein the first and second DSL transceivers generate a single high data rate connection between a service provider and a subscriber.

15. The media of claim 11, wherein first and the second DSL transceivers are operable to utilize at least one parameter associated with operation of at least one of the first and second DSL transceivers to reduce a difference in latency between the first and second DSL transceivers.