In an example embodiment, a method for selective performance enhancement of traffic
flows, such as a Transmission Control Protocol (TCP) flow, on devices where enhancement …

Rapid channel failure detection and recovery in wireless com munication networks is
needed in order to meet, among other things, carrier class Ethernet channel standards …

4,663,748 A 5, 1987 Karbowiak et al. 5,235,592 A 8/1993 Cheng et al. 5,331,642 A 7/1994
Valley et al. 5,457,556 A 10/1995 Shiragaki 5,506,712 A 4, 1996 Sasayama et al. 5,550,803 …

Related US Application Data control of an electronic router. The electronic routers are
connected in a fashion similar to the optical Switches, forming a parallel, photonic/electronic …

4,663,748 A 5, 1987 Karbowiak et al. 5,235,592 A 8/1993 Cheng et al. 5,331,642 A 7/1994
Valley et al. 5,457,556 A 10/1995 Shiragaki 5,506,712 A 4, 1996 Sasayama et al. 5,550,803 …

Abstract Systems and devices can include a first port of a first device coupled to a second
port of a second device across a multi-lane link. The first port can augment a data block with …

Routing mechanisms for routing data via a plurality of optical Switched (OS) networks, Such
as optical burst switched (OBS) networks. A plurality of OBS networks are connected to form …

A method and architecture for Secure transmission of data within optical-Switched networks.
In one embodiment, the optical Switched network comprises a photonic burst switched …

(57) ABSTRACT A system and apparatus can include a port for transmitting data; and a link
coupled to the port. The port can include a physical layer device (PHY) to decode a physical …

An optical network, which includes edge and switching nodes, optically communicate
information formatted into statistically multiplexed control and data bursts and/or meta data …