Patent ID: 10778361

Abstract:
A method including providing a network element including an ingress port, an egress port, and a delay equalizer, providing an equalization message generator, receiving, at the ingress port, a plurality of data packets from multiple sources, each data packet having a source indication and a source-provided time stamp, determining, at the ingress port, a received time stamp for at least some of the received data packets, passing the received data packets, the source-provided time stamps, and the received time stamps to the delay equalizer, the delay equalizer computing, for each source, a delay for synchronizing that source with other sources, the equalization message generator receiving an output, for each source, including the delay for that source, from the delay equalizer and producing a delay message instructing each source regarding the delay for that source, and sending, from the egress port, the delay message to each source. Related apparatus is also provided.