Patent ID: 11916662
Assignee: MICROCHIP TECHNOLOGY INCORPORATED
Field: Telecommunications (Electrical engineering)
Classification: CPC H | IPC H

Claim 11:
12. A source node for transmitting a constant bit rate (CBR) client data stream over a Metro Transport Network (MTN), the source node comprising circuitry to:
receive a stream of encoded blocks of CBR client data;
define a plurality of pseudo-Ethernet packets;
assemble a stream of Generic Mapping Procedure (GMP) frames comprising a plurality of GMP frames by mapping a variable number of blocks of the stream of encoded blocks of CBR client data, a variable number of pad blocks, and GMP overhead into consecutive pseudo-Ethernet packets of the plurality of pseudo-Ethernet packets;
insert a fixed number of idle blocks into the stream of GMP frames; and
insert an MTN path overhead (POH) frame that is aligned to the plurality of GMP frames into the stream of GMP frames to generate a stream of CBR rate adapted GMP frames.