MULTI-RATE, MULTI-PROTOCOL, MULTI-PORT LINE INTERFACE FOR A MULTISERVICE SWITCHING PLATFORM

• US 20060002415A1
• Filed: 09/12/2005
• Published: 01/05/2006
• Est. Priority Date: 06/19/2003
• Status: Abandoned Application

• Current Assignee: Gregory S. Nehib, Matthew L. Heston
• Original Assignee: Gregory S. Nehib, Matthew L. Heston
• Inventors: Heston, Matthew L., Nehib, Gregory S.
• Application Number:
  US11/162,484
• Publication Number:
  US 20060002415A1
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 370/419
• CPC Class Codes: H04J 2203/0025 Peripheral units
• CPC Class Codes: H04J 2203/0085 Support of Ethernet
• CPC Class Codes: H04J 2203/0094 Virtual Concatenation
• CPC Class Codes: H04J 2203/0096 Serial Concatenation
• CPC Class Codes: H04J 3/1611 Synchronous digital hierarchy [SDH] or SONET H04J3/1664 takes precedence for interactions with OTN
• CPC Class Codes: H04J 3/1664 carrying hybrid payloads, e.g. different types of packets or carrying frames and packets in the paylaod
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 49/357 Fibre channel switches

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