Architecture and method for framing control and data bursts over 10 Gbit Ethernet with and without WAN interface sublayer support
First Claim
1. A system comprising:
- a component to provide a first frame having information formatted into a plurality of bursts including a first burst, the plurality of bursts including the first burst being included in a first payload portion of a first synchronous payload envelope (SPE) of the first frame;
an optical interface to optically transmit the first frame to a node of an optical network so as to be data-rate and format compatible with a synchronous optical network (SONET), the node comprising an optical switch that is selectively configurable in response to a control burst included in an optical frame.
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Abstract
An optical network, which includes edge and switching nodes, optically communicate information formatted into statistically multiplexed control and data bursts and/or metadata that are framed within Wide Area Network Interface Sublayer (WIS) frames for 10 Gb/s Ethernet according to the IEEE 802.3ae Standard. Frames with control bursts are transmitted prior to frames with related data bursts to configure optical switches in selected switching nodes so that the frames with the data bursts do not require O-E-O conversion. Another optical network uses frames that are data-rate and format compatible with the OC-192 synchronous optical network (SONET) transmission format. The ingress node to the optical network inserts the MAC address of the egress node rather than the IP address of the data destination. For both networks, mapping table information is exchanged in the optical network in an out-of-band network.
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55 Claims
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1. A system comprising:
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a component to provide a first frame having information formatted into a plurality of bursts including a first burst, the plurality of bursts including the first burst being included in a first payload portion of a first synchronous payload envelope (SPE) of the first frame; an optical interface to optically transmit the first frame to a node of an optical network so as to be data-rate and format compatible with a synchronous optical network (SONET), the node comprising an optical switch that is selectively configurable in response to a control burst included in an optical frame. - View Dependent Claims (2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, 11)
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12. A method comprising:
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formatting information into a plurality of bursts including a first burst; including the plurality of bursts including the first burst in a first payload portion of a first synchronous payload envelope; forming a first frame including the first synchronous payload envelope (SPE); and optically transmitting the first frame to a node of photonic burst (PBS) network so as to be data-rate and format compatible with a synchronous optical network (SONET), the node comprising an optical switch that is selectively configurable in response to a control burst included in an optical frame. - View Dependent Claims (13, 14, 15, 16, 17, 18, 19, 20, 21, 22)
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23. An optical network, comprising:
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a first edge node, comprising; a component to provide a first frame having information formatted into a plurality of bursts including a first burst, the plurality of bursts including the first burst being included in a first payload portion of a first synchronous payload envelope (SPE) of the first frame; and an optical interface to optically transmit the first frame to be data-rate and format compatible with a synchronous optical network (SONET); a plurality of optical switching nodes each including an optical switch that is selectively configurable in response to a control burst included in an optical frame received by that optical switching node, wherein a first switching node of the plurality of switching nodes is coupled to the first edge node; and a second edge node coupled to a second optical switching node of the plurality of optical switching nodes. - View Dependent Claims (24, 25, 26, 27, 28, 29, 30, 31, 32, 33)
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34. A system comprising:
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a component to provide a first frame having information formatted into a first burst, the first burst being included in a first payload portion of a first synchronous payload envelope (“
SPE”
), the first frame including a media access control (MAC) address of an egress node of a photonic burst switched (“
PBS”
) network and a network layer address of a data destination external to the PBS network; andan optical interface to optically transmit the first frame to a node of the PBS network, the node comprising an optical switch that is selectively configurable in response to a control burst included in an optical frame. - View Dependent Claims (35, 36, 37, 38, 39, 40, 41)
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42. A method comprising:
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formatting information into a first burst at an ingress node of a photonic burst switched (“
PBS”
) network;including the first burst in a first payload portion of a first synchronous payload envelope; forming a first frame including the first synchronous payload envelope (SPE), the first frame further comprising a media access control (MAC) address of an egress node of the PBS network and a network layer address of a data destination external to the optical network; optically transmitting the first frame to a node of the PBS network, the node comprising an optical switch that is selectively configurable in response to a control burst included in an optical frame; and receiving network layer addresses and MAC layer addresses of other edge nodes coupled to the PBS network at the ingress node via an out-of-band (“
OOB”
) network that interconnects the other edge nodes to the ingress node. - View Dependent Claims (43, 44, 45, 46, 47, 48)
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49. A photonic burst switched (“
- PBS”
) network, comprising;first and second edge nodes, the first edge node comprising; a component to provide a first frame having information formatted into a first burst, the first burst being included in a first payload portion of the first frame, the first frame including a media access control (MAC) address of an egress node of the PBS network and a network layer address of a data destination external to the PBS network; and an optical interface to optically transmit the first frame to a node of the PBS network, the node comprising an optical switch that is selectively configurable in response to a control burst included in an optical frame; an out-of-band (“
OOB”
) network interconnecting the first and second edge nodes to provide network layer addresses and MAC layer addresses associated with the first and second edge nodes to each other; anda plurality of optical switching nodes each including an optical switch that is selectively configurable in response to a control burst included in an optical frame received by that optical switching node, wherein first and second optical switching nodes of the plurality of optical switching nodes are respectively coupled to the first and second edge nodes. - View Dependent Claims (50, 51, 52, 53, 54, 55)
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