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

Claim 0:
1. A method for performing rate adaptation, the method comprising:
receiving a stream of encoded blocks of CBR client data at a source node;
defining a plurality of pseudo-Ethernet packets;
assembling a stream of Generic Mapping Procedure (GMP) frames comprising a plurality of GMP frames by mapping a variable number of encoded 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;
inserting a fixed number of idle blocks into the stream of GMP frames; and
inserting 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.