Resilient data communications with physical layer link aggregation, extended failure detection and load balancing

A local transceiver system for resilient data communications over a virtual channel with a remote transceiver system, comprising:

• a data access card comprising:
• at least one port configured to receive a group of one or more data frames to be transmitted across a first wireless link and a second wireless link to the remote transceiver system;
• a header insertion circuit configured to attach one or more headers to the group of one or more data frames, each header including synchronization information to support re-assembly, each header further including receive status information configured to inform the remote transceiver system of a receive status of each of the first wireless link and the second wireless link as previously determined by the local transceiver system;
• a segmentation circuit configured to segment, at a physical layer, the group of one or more data frames with the one or more headers into one or more data frame group segments;
• a failure detection circuit configured to individually detect, at the physical layer, any link failure of the first wireless link or the second wireless link;
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• a switch configured to distribute a first set of the one or more data frame group segments to be transmitted across the first wireless link to the remote transceiver system and to distribute a second set of the one or more data frame group segments to be transmitted across the second wireless link to the remote transceiver system when neither the first wireless link nor the second wireless link has been identified as failed, and configured to distribute the one or more data frame group segments away from a particular one of the first wireless link or the second wireless link when the particular one of the first wireless link or the second wireless link has been identified as failed, thereby rendering the data communications over the virtual channel with the remote transceiver system resilient to the link failure, the switch being controlled by configuration information;
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• a circuit configured to manage the configuration information of the switch.