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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Feb. 03, 1998
Filed:
Mar. 29, 1996
Ayumi Watanabe, Tokyo, JP;
NEC Corporation, Tokyo, JP;
Abstract
An Asynchronous Transfer Mode-Local Area Network (ATM-LAN) connection apparatus is connected between an ATM terminal of a LAN emulation protocol and an ATM switch connected to ATM terminals of an Internet Protocol (IP) over ATM protocol. The ATM-LAN connection apparatus includes ATM physical layer sections for transmission and reception of an ATM cell, AAL5-SAR sections for reassembly and segmentation of an AAL5 packet, a LAN emulation protocol processing section for performing minimum LAN emulation protocol processing with respect to the specific ATM terminal, an IP over ATM protocol processing section, and a bridging section for frame format conversion between both the protocols.