Patent 7519728 was granted and assigned to Juniper Networks on April, 2009 by the United States Patent and Trademark Office.
A system improves bandwidth used by a data stream. The system receives data from the data stream and partitions the data into bursts. At least one of the bursts includes one or more idles. The system selectively removes the idles from the at least one burst and transmits the bursts, including the at least one burst.