US Patent Issued to Cisco Technology on July 28 for "CPRI link-rate auto-negotiation based on available bandwidth in Ethernet-based fronthaul network" (Indian Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 28 -- United States Patent no. 12,696,137, issued on July 28, was assigned to Cisco Technology Inc. (San Jose, Calif.).

"CPRI link-rate auto-negotiation based on available bandwidth in Ethernet-based fronthaul network" was invented by Manoj Ramalingam (Bengaluru, India) and Rajasekar Natarajan (Bengaluru, India).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The present disclosure is directed to directed to link-rate auto-negotiation between a radio equipment controller (REC) and a radio equipment (RE) in an Ethernet-based fronthaul network subject to bandwidth availability in the fronthaul network. In one aspect, a method includes determining, at a first proxy element in an Ethernet-bas...