Transmitting apparatus and channel speed varying method

A transmitting apparatus that connects a first network and a second network, the first network including a plurality of channels, the second network being capable of dynamically adjusting a channel speed thereof by using a link capacity adjustment scheme, the transmitting apparatus comprising:

• a storing unit that stores a priority and an inherent bandwidth speed for each of the channels of the first network;
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• a bandwidth-speed adjusting unit that retrieves, when the channel speed of the second network changes, the changed channel speed, and if a sum of inherent bandwidth speeds stored in the storing unit exceeds the changed channel speed, takes the inherent bandwidth speed stored in the storing unit as the bandwidth speed of the channels of the first network, adjusts the bandwidth speed of the first network in such a manner that a sum of the bandwidth speeds of the channels of the first network is below the changed channel speed and a bandwidth speed of a channel for which a high priority is set in the storing unit is not decreased, and resets the bandwidth speed on each of the channels of the first network to the adjusted bandwidth speed, and if a bandwidth speed of one of the channels is decreased from an inherent bandwidth speed of the one of the channels and the sum of the inherent bandwidth speeds stored in the storing unit is equal to or less than the changed channel speed, resets the bandwidth speed on each of the channels of the first network to the inherent bandwidth speed.

A channel-speed adjusting method for a transmitting apparatus that connects a first network and a second network, the first network including a plurality of channels each of which having a preset priority and a predetermined bandwidth speed, the channel-speed adjusting method comprising:

• changing a channel speed of the second network;
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• bandwidth-speed adjusting including
• if a sum of inherent bandwidth speeds of the channels of the first network exceeds the changed channel speed, adjusting the bandwidth speed of the first network in such a manner that a sum of the bandwidth speeds of the channels of the first network is below the changed channel speed and a bandwidth speed of a high-priority channel is not decreased from an inherent bandwidth speed;
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• resetting the bandwidth speed on each of the channels of the first network to the adjusted bandwidth speed;
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• if a bandwidth speed of one of the channels is decreased from an inherent bandwidth speed of the one of the channels and the sum of the inherent bandwidth speeds of the channels of the first network does not exceed the changed channel speed, resetting the bandwidth speed on each of the channels of the first network to the inherent bandwidth speed.

A channel-speed adjusting method for a transmitting apparatus that connects a first network and a second network, the first network including a plurality of channels, the channel-speed adjusting method comprising:

• changing dynamically a channel speed of the second network by using a link capacity adjustment scheme;
• bandwidth-speed-over determining including
• retrieving an inherent bandwidth speed for each of the channels of the first network stored in a storing unit in advance;
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• determining whether a sum of the inherent bandwidth speeds exceeds the changed channel speed;
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• bandwidth-speed adjusting including
• if a sum of the inherent bandwidth speeds of the channels of the first network is determined to exceed the changed channel speed at the determining, taking the inherent bandwidth speed stored in the storing unit as the bandwidth speed of the channels of the first network;
• adjusting the bandwidth speed of the first network in such a manner that a sum of the bandwidth speeds of the channels of the first network is below the changed channel speed and a bandwidth speed of a high-priority channel is not decreased;
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• resetting the bandwidth speed on each of the channels of the first network to the adjusted bandwidth speed;
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• if a bandwidth speed of one of the channels is decreased from an inherent bandwidth speed of the one of the channels and the sum of the inherent bandwidth speeds of the channels of the first network is determined not to exceed the changed channel speed, resetting the bandwidth speed on each of the channels of the first network to the inherent bandwidth speed.