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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Aug. 27, 2002
Filed:
Dec. 21, 1998
Toru Aramaki, Yokohama, JP;
Tadashi Tamaoki, Yokosuka, JP;
Shigeo Arai, Yokohama, JP;
Toshimichi Noake, Yokohama, JP;
Hitachi, Ltd., Tokyo, JP;
Abstract
The present invention intends to realize highly reliable communications between a frame relay network and an ATM network by corresponding service classes decided in both networks to each other. In order to achieve the above object, the frame relay data communication apparatus of the present invention used to allow communications between the frame relay network and the ATM network is provided with a frame receiver unit for receiving frame data from the frame relay network; a cell assembly unit for assembling received frame data into ATM cells and transmitting assembled cells to the ATM network; and a controller for controlling both frame receiver unit and cell assembly unit so as to extract priority order information from received frame data and receive priority order information of data used in ATM networks from an ATM network and decide a service class of the received data to assemble the received frame data into cells according to the decided service class.