Interworking network element
AssigneeTejas Networks Limited
InventorBalasubramanian Krishnamoorthy
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Abstract
The invention relates to a method and device for managing the interconnection between network domains. In one embodiment this is accomplished by classifying the received frame based on service level agreement, wherein the classifying includes checking the received frame Ethertype value is same as the port on which the frame is received, recognizing an Ethertype of the egress port of the received frame, wherein the recognizing includes checking the received frame Ethertype value is same or not and translating the frame into a compatible Ethertype and forwarding the same to the next available port.
Claims13
A method for processing a frame at a network element, comprising:
- classifying the received frame based on service level agreement, wherein the classifying includes checking the received frame Ethertype value is same as the port on which the frame is received;
- recognizing an Ethertype of the egress port of the received frame, wherein the recognizing includes checking the received frame Ethertype value is same or not;
- and
- translating the frame into a compatible Ethertype and forwarding the same to the next available port, wherein the translation includes converting the non-standard Ethertype of the frame to a standard Ethertype based on the incoming port of the network element.
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A network element for processing a frame, where the frame travels from at least one first network to a second network, the network element comprsing:
- a processor;
- a plurality of ports coupled to the processor for receiving the frame;
- a memory coupled to the processor for storing the received frame;
- and
- a network protocol module coupled to the processor, wherein the processor is configured for:
- classifying the received frame based on service level agreement, wherein the classifying includes checking the received frame Ethertype value is same as the port on which the frame is received;
- recognizing an Ethertype of the egress port of the received frame, wherein the recognizing includes checking the received frame Ethertype value is same or not;
- and
- translating the frame into a compatible Ethertype and forwarding the same to the next available port, wherein the translation includes converting the non-standard Ethertype of the frame to a standard Ethertype based on the incoming port of the network element.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.