Patent ID: 11917045
Assignee: MELLANOX TECHNOLOGIES, LTD.
Field: Telecommunications (Electrical engineering)
Classification: CPC H | IPC G  H

Claim 17:
18. A communication method, comprising:
each network device of a plurality of network devices receiving at least one data stream;
a given one of the network devices recovering a remote clock from the at least one data stream received by the given network device;
a frequency synthesizer generating a clock signal and outputting the clock signal to each of the network devices;
the given network device finding a clock frequency differential between the clock signal and the recovered remote clock; and
the given network device providing a control signal to the frequency synthesizer responsively to the clock frequency differential; and
the frequency synthesizer adjusting the clock signal responsively to the control signal so as to iteratively reduce an absolute value of the clock frequency differential between the clock signal and the recovered remote clock.