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US 6,999,450 · App. 09/842,559 · Granted Feb 14, 2006

Ethernet based TDM switch

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Patent No.
US 6,999,450
App. No.
09/842,559
Granted
Feb 14, 2006
Kind
B2
Abstract

A method and apparatus for packetizing data framed as a TDM stream as an Ethernet packet. In an embodiment, the data is packetized into an Ethernet frame having a header which includes information which indicates an appropriate time at which to write the data into an outbound TDM stream.

Claims (1)

1. A method, comprising packetizing, in a switch having an Ethernet backplane, a TDM frame from an inbound TDM data stream as an Ethernet packet by writing the TDM frame into a payload field of the Ethernet packet and writing (1) a destination of the TDM frame, and (2) information identifying which block of the TDM stream the TDM frame written into the payload field originated from into a destination field of the Ethernet packet.

Assignments (12)
RELEASE OF SECURITY INTEREST Recorded May 11, 2022
From: BANK OF AMERICA, N.A.
To: CALIX, INC.
Reel/Frame 059929/0453 →
RELEASE OF SECURITY INTEREST Recorded Apr 18, 2022
From: BANK OF AMERICA, N.A.
To: CALIX, INC.
Reel/Frame 059802/0579 →
SECURITY INTEREST Recorded Jan 28, 2020
From: CALIX, INC.
To: BANK OF AMERICA, N.A., AS AGENT
Reel/Frame 051719/0348 →
RELEASE OF SECURITY INTEREST IN INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY Recorded Jan 27, 2020
From: SILICON VALLEY BANK
To: CALIX, INC.
Reel/Frame 051714/0883 →
RELEASE OF SECURITY INTEREST Recorded Aug 9, 2017
From: BANK OF AMERICA, N.A., AS ADMINISTRATIVE AGENT FOR LENDERS
To: CALIX, INC.
Reel/Frame 043494/0549 →
SECURITY INTEREST Recorded Aug 9, 2017
From: CALIX, INC.
To: SILICON VALLEY BANK
Reel/Frame 043495/0424 →
SECURITY AGREEMENT Recorded Jul 29, 2013
From: CALIX, INC.
To: BANK OF AMERICA, N.A., AS ADMINISTRATIVE AGENT
Reel/Frame 030899/0597 →
ASSIGNMENT OF ASSIGNOR'S INTEREST Recorded Jun 26, 2012
From: OCCAM NETWORKS, LLC
To: CALIX, INC. (A CORPORATION OF DELAWARE)
Reel/Frame 028441/0515 →
CHANGE OF NAME Recorded Jun 22, 2012
From: OCEAN SUB II, LLC (A DELAWARE LIMITED LIABILITY COMPANY)
To: OCCAM NETWORKS, LLC (A DELAWARE LIMITED LIABILITY COMPANY)
Reel/Frame 028432/0694 →
MERGER Recorded Jun 21, 2012
From: OCCAM NETWORKS, INC. (A DELAWARE CORPORATION)
To: OCEAN SUB II, LLC (A DELAWARE LIMITED LIABILITY COMPANY)
Reel/Frame 028432/0394 →
MERGER Recorded Aug 17, 2010
From: OCCAM NETWORKS, INC. (A CALIFORNIA CORPORATION)
To: ACCELERATED NETWORKS, INC. (A DELAWARE CORPORATION)
Reel/Frame 024838/0715 →
CHANGE OF NAME Recorded Aug 17, 2010
From: ACCELERATED NETWORKS, INC. (A DELAWARE CORPORATION)
To: OCCAM NETWORKS, INC. (A DELAWARE CORPORATION)
Reel/Frame 024838/0755 →