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US 2020/0007255 A1Published application
Flexible Ethernet switching systems and methods
AssigneeCiena Corporation
InventorsSebastien Gareau, James Tierney, David Stuart
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Abstract
A switch system includes interface circuitry configured to ingress and egress clients each including a stream of encoded blocks; and switch circuitry configured to switch the clients between the interface circuitry based on block boundaries of the stream of encoded blocks. The stream of encoded blocks can include 64 b/66 b encoding. Each block in the stream of encoded blocks can be switched intact.
Claims20
A switch system comprising:
- interface circuitry configured to ingress and egress clients, each client including a stream of encoded blocks;
- and
- switch circuitry configured to switch at least one of the clients between the interface circuitry based on block boundaries of the respective stream of encoded blocks.
A method comprising:
- ingressing clients, each client including a stream of encoded blocks;
- switching at least one of the clients based on block boundaries of the respective stream of encoded blocks;
- and
- egressing the switched clients.
1 more element
A switch system comprising:
- interface circuitry configured to ingress clients and egress clients, each client including a stream of encoded blocks;
- and
- switch circuitry configured to switch portions of at least one of the clients between the interface circuitry based on block boundaries of the respective stream of encoded blocks, wherein the portions comprise one or more of the encoded blocks.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.