Systems and methods for multi-pair ATM over DSL

• US 20030091053A1
• Filed: 10/04/2002
• Published: 05/15/2003
• Est. Priority Date: 10/05/2001
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: TQ Delta LLC (Techquity Capital Management, LLC)
• Original Assignee: Aware Incorporated (Crowley Holdings Preferred LLC)
• Inventors: Cahill, Christopher, Tzannes, Marcos C., Reiter, Edmund
• Granted Patent: US 7,453,881 B2
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 370/395.1
• 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

At a transmitter, an ATM cell stream is received from the ATM layer and is distributed on a cell-by-cell bases across multiple DSL PHY'"'"'s. At the receiver, the cells from each DSL PHY are re-combined in the appropriate order to recreate the original ATM cell stream, which is then passed to the ATM layer.

Claims

4-1. The system of claim 1, wherein a cell counter is used to re-assemble the ATM stream.

9. A communication method that allows the transmission of ATM over a communications link comprising:

receiving an ATM stream; and

distributing the ATM stream between a plurality of ATM substreams, wherein each of the plurality of ATM substreams are associated with a multiple twisted wire pair.

10. A communication protocol that allows the transmission of ATM over a communications link comprising:

receiving an ATM stream; and

distributing the ATM stream between a plurality of ATM substreams, wherein each of the plurality of ATM substreams are associated with a multiple twisted wire pair.

11. An information storage media comprising information for allowing the transmission of ATM over a communications link comprising:

information that receives an ATM stream; and

information that distributes the ATM stream between a plurality of ATM substreams, wherein each of the plurality of ATM substreams are associated with a multiple twisted wire pair.

12. A communication system that allows the transmission of ATM over a communications link comprising:

means for receiving an ATM stream; and

means for distributing the ATM stream between a plurality of ATM substreams, wherein each of the plurality of ATM substreams are associated with a multiple twisted wire pair.