Ethernet encapsulation over optical transport network
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1. A method for encapsulating a packet for transport over an optical transport network, the method comprising:
- receiving a Gigabit Ethernet packet at a network device;
encapsulating said packet, said encapsulating comprising;
replacing a preamble and a start of frame delimiter in said received Ethernet packet with overhead comprising a field configured to identify a client signal fail and a channel ID, wherein said overhead comprises a fewer number of bytes than the number of bytes removed from said packet, wherein replacing comprises removing eight bytes and inserting four bytes into said packet; and
transporting said packet over the optical transport network;
whereby said packet is received from a network having a line frequency different than a payload frequency of the optical transport network and said encapsulated packet is configured for transport directly over the optical transport network without modification to compensate for the different frequencies.
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Abstract
A method and system for encapsulating a frame for transport over an optical transport network are disclosed. A method includes receiving a packet at a network device and encapsulating the packet. The packet is received from a network having a line frequency different than a payload frequency of the optical transport network and the encapsulated packet is configured for transport directly over the optical transport network without modification to compensate for the different frequencies.
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19 Claims
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1. A method for encapsulating a packet for transport over an optical transport network, the method comprising:
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receiving a Gigabit Ethernet packet at a network device; encapsulating said packet, said encapsulating comprising; replacing a preamble and a start of frame delimiter in said received Ethernet packet with overhead comprising a field configured to identify a client signal fail and a channel ID, wherein said overhead comprises a fewer number of bytes than the number of bytes removed from said packet, wherein replacing comprises removing eight bytes and inserting four bytes into said packet; and transporting said packet over the optical transport network; whereby said packet is received from a network having a line frequency different than a payload frequency of the optical transport network and said encapsulated packet is configured for transport directly over the optical transport network without modification to compensate for the different frequencies. - View Dependent Claims (2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9)
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10. An apparatus comprising:
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a processor, a computer-readable storage medium that stores instructions for execution by the processor, the instructions, comprising; code for reading a Gigabit Ethernet packet received at a network device; code for encapsulating said packet, said encapsulation code comprising; code for replacing a preamble and a start of frame delimiter in said received Ethernet packet with overhead comprising a field configured to identify a client signal fail and a channel ID, wherein said overhead comprises a fewer number of bytes than the number of bytes removed from said packet, wherein replacing comprises removing eight bytes and inserting four bytes into said packet; and code for transmitting said packet over the optical transport network; whereby said packet is received from a network having a line frequency different than a payload frequency of the optical transport network and said encapsulated packet is configured for transport directly over the optical transport network without modification to compensate for the different frequencies. - View Dependent Claims (11, 12, 13, 14)
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15. Apparatus for encapsulating a packet for transport over an optical transport network, comprising:
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means for receiving a Gigabit Ethernet packet at a network device; means for encapsulating said packet, said encapsulating means comprising; means for replacing a preamble and a start of frame delimiter in said received Ethernet packet with overhead comprising a field configured to identify a client signal fail and a channel ID, wherein said overhead comprises a fewer number of bytes than the number of bytes removed from said packet, wherein replacing comprises removing eight bytes and inserting four bytes into said packet; and means for transporting said packet over the optical transport network; whereby said packet is received from a network having a line frequency different than a payload frequency of the optical transport network and said encapsulated packet is configured for transport directly over the optical transport network without modification to compensate for the different frequencies. - View Dependent Claims (16)
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17. A method for mapping an Ethernet frame to an optical transport network, the method comprising:
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receiving an Ethernet packet from a network operating at a first frequency; removing a preamble field and a start of frame delimiter field from the Ethernet packet; replacing said preamble field and said start of frame delimiter field with overhead in the packet, said overhead comprising a field configured to identify a client signal fail and a channel ID, wherein replacing comprises removing eight bytes and inserting four bytes into said packet; and transporting the packet directly over the optical transport network operating at a second frequency different from said first frequency. - View Dependent Claims (18, 19)
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