Patent ID: 7961705

Claim:
A method for data transmission, comprising: representing data using at least one impulse based on a ultra wideband impulse; sending the at least one impulse over an electrically conductive guided media; receiving the at least one impulse over the electrically conductive guided media; recovering the data encoded in the at least one impulse after receiving the at least one impulse over the electrically conductive guided media; storing individual bytes of the data recovered from said ultra wideband impulse signals in selectable memory locations of a plurality of buffer memories, each buffer memory for storing a plurality of said bytes; adding header data to outputs of said buffer memories and forming a plurality of variable length packets, each packet comprising bytes from at least one ultra wideband impulse channel from a plurality of said ultra wideband impulse signals; transmitting said plurality of packets in ultra wideband impulse output signals to a device for switching packets of said output signals; and wherein said selectable memory locations are assigned to at least one byte of data into at least one channel in a common switching system device.