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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Jan. 28, 2003
Filed:
Feb. 12, 1999
Natsuki Karaki, Machida, JP;
Katsunobu Okuda, Kawasaki, JP;
Yukio Shimamoto, Yokohama, JP;
Kei Toga, Kawasaki, JP;
Hitachi, Ltd., Tokyo, JP;
Abstract
A transmission apparatus used for resolving an ATM address and provided between a terminating node communicating with another terminating node by using a layer- address and an ATM-switch network. A transmission apparatus includes a first apparatus which receives an ATM address of another transmission apparatus and a layer- address of a terminating node connected to another transmission apparatus from another transmission apparatus, and catalogs ATM address and layer- address into a table, and a second apparatus which searches the table using a layer- address of a destination terminating node which is a destination of a transmission of data received from a source terminating node connected to a transmission apparatus to acquire an ATM address of another transmission apparatus connected to destination terminating node, and communicates with another transmission apparatus by using the acquired ATM address to transmit a cell including information of a layer- address of destination terminating node.