US 11,996,956 B2 · Transmission apparatus, connection device, and method

Abstract

Embodiments of the present invention provide a transmission apparatus, a connection device, and a method, where the apparatus includes N Ethernet Medium Access Control MAC ports, where each Ethernet MAC port is corresponding to a first MII interface, K Ethernet physical layer interfaces, where each Ethernet physical layer interface is corresponding to a second MII interface, and a connection device, where both N and K are positive integers; where the connection device is configured to control a time-division interconnect bus in the connection device or a time-division space-division switching matrix in the connection device to implement a connection between a timeslot of the first MII interface and a timeslot of the second MII interface, where the N Ethernet MAC ports and the K Ethernet physical layer interfaces are separately connected to the connection device by using the first MII interfaces and the second MII interfaces.

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Dependent claims

A transmission apparatus comprising:

N Ethernet Medium Access Control (MAC) ports, each of the N Ethernet MAC port corresponding to a first interface;
K Ethernet physical layer devices, each of the K Ethernet physical layer devices corresponding to a second interface;
and
a connection device,
wherein both N and K are positive integers, wherein N is greater than 1 and K is greater than 1,
wherein the connection device is configured to implement a connection between a timeslot of the first interface and a timeslot of the second interface, the N Ethernet MAC ports are connected to the connection device through the corresponding first interfaces, and the K Ethernet physical layer devices are connected to the connection device through the corresponding second interfaces.

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A data transmission method, comprising:

implementing, by a connection device, data transmission between N1 Ethernet Medium Access Control (MAC) ports of N Ethernet MAC ports and K1 Ethernet physical layer devices of K Ethernet physical layer devices by using a connection between a timeslot of a first interface and a timeslot of a second interface, wherein
the connection between the timeslot of the first interface and the timeslot of the second interface is implemented by the connection device,
N and N1 are positive integers and N1≤N,
both K and K1 are positive integers and K1≤K, wherein N1 is greater than 1 and K is greater than 1,
the N Ethernet MAC ports are connected to the connection device through the corresponding first interfaces, and the K Ethernet physical layer devices are connected to the connection device through the corresponding second interfaces.

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A non-transitory computer-readable recording medium having stored therein a program that causes a computer to execute a process, the process comprising:

implementing, by a connection device, data transmission between N1 Ethernet Medium Access Control (MAC) ports of N Ethernet MAC ports and K1 Ethernet physical layer devices of K Ethernet physical layer devices by using a connection between a timeslot of a first interface and a timeslot of a second interface, wherein
the connection between the timeslot of the first interface and the timeslot of the second interface is implemented by the connection device,
N and N1 are positive integers and N1≤N,
both K and K1 are positive integers and K1≤K, wherein N1 is greater than 1 and K is greater than 1,
the N Ethernet MAC ports are connected to the connection device through the corresponding first interfaces, and the K Ethernet physical layer devices are connected to the connection device through the corresponding second interfaces.

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Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.

Transmission apparatus, connection device, and method

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