Thomas I Scheibe

US Patent:

20070180145, Aug 2, 2007

Filed:

Jan 27, 2006

Appl. No.:

11/342202

Inventors:

Thomas Scheibe - Oakland CA, US

International Classification:

G06F 15/16

US Classification:

709246000

Abstract:

A pluggable module for insertion into the port of a network device includes an onboard encryption engine to provide for the use of secure links in networks having legacy switches or routers not including an encryption facility.

US Patent:

20100296559, Nov 25, 2010

Filed:

May 22, 2009

Appl. No.:

12/471138

Inventors:

Alessandro Barbieri - Santa Clara CA, US
Adam Jonathan Carter - San Jose CA, US
David C. Lai - Mountain View CA, US
Thomas Scheibe - Oakland CA, US

Assignee:

CISCO TECHNOLOGY, INC. - San Jose CA

International Classification:

H04B 1/38

US Classification:

375222

Abstract:

In one embodiment, a networking device may include a network port and be configured to receive a transceiver module card in the network port. The networking device may detect whether the transceiver module card is a single channel card or a multi-channel card, where the single channel card includes a single transceiver module and the multi-channel card includes multiple transceiver modules. The networking device may transmit data to the transceiver card either as a single channel de-multiplexed over multiple lanes or as multiple independent channels corresponding to the multiple lanes based on whether the transceiver module card is the single channel card or the multi-channel card. The networking device may transmit data over each of the lanes at one data rate regardless whether of the transceiver module card is the single channel card or the multi-channel card.