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AssigneeNokia Corporation
InventorsTamas Major, Mika Aalto
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Apparatus, and an associated method, facilitates communication of data frames between elemental devices of a network element, such as an IP (Internet Protocol) base transceiver station of a radio communication system which includes a multi-port interface converter and a router device connected by way of an Ethernet connection. Data applied to a port of the interface converter is formatted into a data frame which selectably includes a Q Tag Prefix populated with a VID (Virtual LAN Identifier) defined in the IEEE 802.1 Q standard. If the data to be communicated by the multi-port interface converter is originated at the converter, the data is formatted into a data frame, but the prefix structure is not included, and therefore the frame is not populated with the VID. When the data frame is received at the router device, detection is made as to whether the data frame includes a prefix structure. Routing of the data of the data frame is made responsive to whether the prefix structure is formed of a VID contained in the data frame.
In a network element including a first elemental device and at least a second elemental device, the first and second elemental devices, respectively, connected together by way of a network path and upon which at least selectably to communicate a payload data stream and a management data stream upon a common transport stream, an improvement of apparatus for the first elemental device, said apparatus comprising:
In a network element having a first elemental device and at least a second elemental device, the first and at least second elemental devices, respectively, connected together by a connector, an improvement of apparatus for facilitating communication of data, sourced at a first net entity, at least from the first elemental device to the second elemental device, said apparatus comprising:
The apparatus of claim 3 wherein the prefix structure included as part of the header portion selectably formed by said frame encapsulator comprises a VLAN (Virtual Local Area Network) Identifier (VID).
The apparatus of claim 5 wherein the prefix structure is of a length corresponding a VIE) field defined pursuant to an IEEE 802.1Q standard, and wherein the VID) comprises an IEEE 802.1Q-defined VID).
In a method for communicating at a network element having a first elemental device and at least a second elemental device, the first and at least second elemental devices, respectively, connected together by a connector, an improvement of a method for facilitating communication of data, at least from the first elemental device to the second elemental device, said method comprising:
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.