Patent ID: 8787406

Claim:
A method for distributing high-speed Ethernet Media Independent Interface (MII) blocks, comprising: processing received Media Access Control (MAC) layer data and adjusting distribution of at least one type of control characters to generate a first 64-bit block, and adjusting distribution of at least one type of control characters to generate a second 64-bit block; obtaining a first control signal code corresponding to the first 64-bit block; obtaining a second control signal code corresponding to the second 64-bit block; and binding the first 64-bit block and the first control signal code together as first bound data, and sending the first bound data including the first 64-bit block and the first bound control signal code on a first channel; wherein the first control signal code is the same as the second control signal code when an octet position of a first control character in the first 64-bit block is the same as an octet position of a first control character in the second 64-bit block, and the first control character in the first 64-bit block is different from the first control character in the second 64-bit block.