Patent ID: 9025443
Filing Date: 2015-05-05
Classification: H04L

Abstract:
1. A network equipment, comprising: a port having a transmission unit and a reception unit and configured to perform transmission/reception of plural frames related to multiple traffics that flow in a link with a node, the transmission unit being configured to transmit a transmission frame and the reception unit being configured to receive a reception frame; and a control unit configured to: suspend, when the reception frame received through the port includes a command of temporal suspension, transmission of the transmission frame from the port temporarily until a predetermined time lapses, limit, after the suspension, a transmission bandwidth of at least one traffic selected from the multiple traffics, determine whether an interval at which the reception frame including the command of temporal suspension is received is expanded to be greater than a previous interval at which a previous reception frame including a previous command of temporal suspension has been received, and decrease the limited transmission bandwidth of the selected at least one traffic when it is determined that the interval at which the reception frame including the command of temporal suspension is received is expanded.