Patent ID: 9054824
Filing Date: 2015-06-09
Classification: H04J,H04L

Abstract:
1. An inter-frame gap controller communicating with a transmission apparatus having a traffic volume transmitter, comprising: a traffic volume receiver in a reception apparatus that receives a value of traffic volume from the transmission apparatus; an inter-frame gap length determiner that receives, via the traffic volume receiver, detected current traffic volume of Ethernet frames which are converted to synchronous frames and are transmitted over a synchronous network, the detected current traffic volume of Ethernet frames being transmitted from the traffic volume transmitter in the transmission apparatus over the synchronous network and received by the inter-frame gap length determiner, and determines a length of an inter-frame gap based on the detected current traffic volume of Ethernet frames, where the determined length of inter-frame gap enables smoothing of burst traffic; and a gap inserter that inserts an inter-frame gap of the length determined by said inter-frame gap length determiner between Ethernet frames which are converted from said synchronous frames; wherein the traffic volume transmitter includes: