Patent ID: 6879590
Filing Date: 2005-04-12
Classification: H04L,H04M,Y02D

Abstract:
1. An apparatus facilitating aggregation of at least two physical links into a logical link, comprising at least one native link interface operative to: a link bonding engine operative to: at least two bonded link interfaces, wherein the at least two bonded link interfaces are operative to: wherein the at least two bonded link interfaces aggregate a maximum number of cells into a given bonded link frame, wherein the maximum number of cells is determined relative to the speed of the physical link and the size of the resulting bonded link frame, and wherein the link bonding engine schedules the plurality of user cells for transmission across the bonded links by arbitrating among the at least two bonded link interfaces, wherein the number of cells passed to each of the bonded link frames is the maximum number of cells that each bonded link interface aggregates into a bonded link frame.