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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Mar. 02, 2004
Filed:
Apr. 27, 2000
Karl-Albert Turban, Leonberg-Höfingen, DE;
Alcatel, Paris, FR;
Abstract
According to the ITU recommendations for SDH or SONET, a payload exceeding the transmission capacity of the largest virtual container can be divided over several concatenated virtual containers. According to a method for the transmission of such a payload via a synchronous information transmission network (NET), the payload is divided into blocks and the individual blocks are packed into virtual containers (VC ), each of which has a path overhead and a payload field, and are transported as a virtual concatenation in at least one transport module. A pointer (Z) that points to the next virtual container in the concatenation is inserted in the path overhead of all virtual containers (VC ) except the last virtual container in the concatenation. This makes it possible to change the number of concatenated virtual containers (VC ) during a connection.