Patent ID: 6526023
Filing Date: 2003-02-25
Classification: H04L,H04Q

Abstract:
A traffic control apparatus, comprising:a communication buffer allocating unit allocating, to each of a plurality of data links for performing a frame relay communication, a communication buffer having a storage capacity according to a number of time slots of a physical channel used by each of the data links; a periodical communication process executing unit periodically executing a communication process of frames in the frame relay communication; a total processing frame number restricting unit restricting the number of frames, for which the communication process is executed by said periodical communication process executing unit on all of the data links within one period; and an each data link processing frame number restricting unit restricting a number of frames, which are processed by being communicated on each of the data links within one period, according to the storage capacity of the communication buffer that said communication buffer allocating unit allocates to each of the data links.