Patent ID: 7421014

Claim:
A method of channel bonding a plurality of multi-gigabit transceivers, the method comprises: receiving, by a master transceiver of the plurality of multi-gigabit transceivers, a channel bonding sequence; generating, by the master transceiver, a channel bonding request in response to the channel bonding sequence; transmitting, by the master transceiver, the channel bonding request and a channel bonding configuration information to slave transceivers of the plurality of multi-gigabit transceivers; receiving, by each of the slave transceivers, the channel bonding sequence; receiving, by each of the slave transceivers, the channel bonding request and the channel bonding configuration information; processing, by each of the slave transceivers, the channel bonding request and the channel bonding sequence in accordance with the channel bonding configuration information to determine individual slave channel bonding start information; processing, by the master transceiver, the channel bonding sequence in accordance with the channel bonding configuration information and the channel bonding request to determine master channel bonding start information; and commencing channel bond writing of respective data to and reading of the respective data from corresponding buffers by the master transceiver and the slave transceivers in accordance with the individual slave channel bonding start information and the master channel bonding start information.