Patent ID: 7408939

Claim:
A transport unit comprising: a plurality of first ingress queues, wherein each first ingress queue is configured to receive a TDM datastream; a plurality of second ingress queues, wherein each second ingress queue is configured to receive a packetized datastream; an ingress queue selector unit coupled to the first ingress queues; a payload data unit (PDU) formation unit configured to form a PDU, wherein the PDU comprises data, wherein the data comprises TDM data and packetized data, the TDM data is from a TDM datastream, and the packetized data is from a packetized datastream, and the PDU formation unit comprises a data egress queue to hold a plurality of PDUs, wherein the data egress queue is one of a plurality of data egress queues; a frame formation unit coupled to the PDU formation unit; and an egress queue selector unit coupled to each of the second ingress queues, the ingress queue selector unit, and the data egress queues, wherein the ingress queue selector unit transmits the TDM data to the egress queue selector unit.