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US07949782B2 Extended link monitoring channel for 10 Gb/s Ethernet 有权
用于10 Gb / s以太网的扩展链路监控通道

Extended link monitoring channel for 10 Gb/s Ethernet
Abstract:
The invention provides a method for utilizing the Inter Packet Gaps (IPGs) to create an Extended Link Monitoring Channel in a physical layer transceiver for a 10 Gb/s Ethernet link for communicating link related information, thus providing an extensive link maintenance capability. A corresponding transceiver between an Ethernet media access control (MAC) layer device and a 10 Gb/s Ethernet link, comprising a physical coding sublayer (PCS) extension circuit for implementing the Extended Link Monitoring Channel is also provided.
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