US Patent:
20100103954, Apr 29, 2010
Inventors:
William Cerreta - San Mateo CA, US
Keith Iain Wilkinson - Fremont CA, US
Assignee:
Cisco Technology, Inc. - San Jose CA
International Classification:
H04J 3/00
Abstract:
In particular embodiments, there are provided methods and apparatus including receiving one or more Infiniband signal streams, de-serializing the received one or more Infiniband signal streams to generate a corresponding one or more parallel data streams, de-serializing further including selectively adding or deleting a control symbol associated with a quiescent period of the one or more received signal streams, time-division multiplexing the generated one or more parallel data streams, and serializing the time division multiplexed one or more parallel data streams.