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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Dec. 13, 2016
Filed:
Mar. 06, 2015
Hitachi, Ltd., Tokyo, JP;
Hitachi, Ltd., Tokyo, JP;
Abstract
It is provided a transport apparatus including: a port information management unit for obtaining port information which includes a type first interfaces, a transport rate of first interfaces, and a physical lane count from the first interfaces into the transport apparatus, and for determining, based on the obtained port information, a virtual lane count into which the physical lanes from the first interfaces are converted; virtual lane creating units for setting as many virtual lanes as the determined virtual lane count; a lane information creating unit for creating, based on the port information, lane information which associates the first interfaces, the physical lane count, and identification information of virtual lanes in association with the physical lanes; and a multiplexing unit for multiplexing data that is transported along the virtual lanes, and for inserting the lane information in an invalid data field which is generated when the data is multiplexed.