The data is converted to a synchronous optical network (SONET) format.

Synchronous Optical NETwork (SONET) traffic is sent across a packet network.

The voice adaptation device (18) also includes a synchronous optical network formatter (52) that places ATM cells generated by the T1/E1 network adaptor (50) into synchronous optical network signals.

The technology of this research can be applied to a synchronous optical network system.

A system and method for automatically generating a topology of a network having synchronous optical network (SONET) switches.

A system and method of virtually concatenating VT1.5s and STS-1s over SONET and SDH and WDM is provided.

The client 10GE LAN signal are not converted to a SONET transmission format at any time before reaching the transceiver.

A modular approach to the mapping of data in and from a standard SDH/SONET signal is described.

A system and method of binding MPLS labels to virtually concatenated SONET/SDH transport connections is provided.

A system and method of mapping fixed-size data packets and variable-size data packets over SONET and SDH is provided.

An overhead processor (420) processes overhead bytes (Fig. 1) in a stream of Synchronous Optical Network (SONET) frames in multiple levels.

A synchronous optical network (SONET) framer includes a frame dimension unit and a programming interface.

Extending Point-to-Point Protocol (PPP) over Synchronous Optical NETwork/Synchronous Digital Hierarchy (SONET/SDH) with virtual concatenation, high order and low order payloads

This includes digital switching, fiber optics, self-healing architecture, Integrated Services Digital Network (ISDN) and Synchronous Optical Networking (SONET) which will support Asynchronous Transfer Mode (ATM) service.

Provided are a system and method for transferring management channel information (inband or using path overhead) over a synchronous optical network (SONET).