Apparatus for transmitting an anisochronic data stream on an isochronic transmission route

A data transmission system, comprising:

• a data bus;
• a data source that provides an anisochronic data stream;
• a transmitter that receives the anischronic data stream, assigns a plurality of channels associated with the data bus for transmission of data indicative of the anischronic data stream, partitions the anischronic data into a plurality of packets, and fills unused bit locations of each packet with filler data, and provides output packets indicative thereof;
• a first bus interface that receives the output packets and transmits the output packets onto the data bus;
• a second bus interface that receives an output packets on the data bus, and provides input packets indicative thereof;
• and
• a receiver that receives and processes the input packets to recover the anischronic data stream, and provides a recovered anischronic data stream indicative thereof.

An apparatus for transmitting an anisochronic data stream from a data source to a data sink over a isochronic transmission network having with a plurality of channels, comprising:

• means for receiving data from the data source, and for reserving at least two of the plurality of channels to provide reserved channels for transmission of data from the transmitter onto the transmission network, where the cumulative transmission capacities of the reserved channels exceeds the bandwidth of the asynchronous data stream;
• means for partitioning data of the anisochronic data stream into packets;
• means for providing bit locations of the packets not required to transmit the anischronic data with filler data, and for providing packetized data indicative thereof;
• and
• means for providing the packetized data for transmission over at least one reserved channel of the transmission network.