Systems and Methods for Performing Layer One Link Aggregation Over Wireless Links

摘要

A first layer one link aggregation master comprises a first port coupled to receive customer traffic; a first channel; a second channel; an aggregation engine coupled to the first and second channels; a first switch circuit coupled to the first port and to the first channel, and configured to communicate the customer traffic from the first port over the first channel to the aggregation engine, the aggregation engine including a splitter circuit configured to use layer one information to segment at least a portion of the customer traffic into a first virtual container and a second virtual container, the aggregation engine further including an encapsulation circuit configured to encapsulate the second virtual container using Ethernet standards for transport over the second channel; a radio access card configured to generate an air frame based on the first virtual container for wireless transmission over a first wireless link of a link aggregation group to the receiver; and a second switch circuit coupled to the second channel, and configured to communicate the Ethernet-encapsulated second virtual container over an Ethernet cable to a slave for wireless transmission over a second wireless link of the link aggregation group to the receiver.

主权项

1. A first layer one link aggregation slave device, comprising:
a radio access card configured to receive a first air frame from a first wireless link of a link aggregation group and to generate one or more first virtual containers; an Ethernet encapsulating circuit configured to encapsulate the one or more first virtual containers to generate one or more Ethernet-encapsulated virtual containers; and a switching circuit configured to transport the one or more Ethernet-encapsulated virtual containers over an Ethernet cable to a layer one link aggregation master device to enable the layer one link aggregation master device to decapsulate the one or more Ethernet-encapsulated virtual containers virtual containers with one or more second virtual containers received in a second air frame from a second wireless link to generate customer data, and to provide the customer data to a customer device.