Slot negotiation and apparatus for fine-grain service in flexible ethernet flexe

Abstract

This application disclose a slot negotiation method for a fine-grain service in a FlexE. A sending apparatus may send the N requests to a receiving apparatus. The N requests initiates full slots negotiation of the fine-grain service. The N requests carry full sub-slot information of a sub-slot occupied by the fine-grain service, and the full sub-slot information indicates all sub-slots occupied by the fine-grain service. The receiving apparatus and the sending apparatus may perform negotiation based on the N requests and full slots of the fine-grain service. Therefore, fine-grain slots of the sending apparatus and the receiving apparatus are consistent, and a problem of inconsistent fine-grain slots of the sending apparatus and the receiving apparatus that may exist due to use of an incremental negotiation manner is avoided.

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