Patent ID: 6954428

Claim:
An intensive management apparatus for managing a time-sharing multiplexing network including: a plurality of terminals; a plurality of communication apparatuses each for communicating transmitted data accommodated in each of time slots by mapping said transmitted data onto said time slots allocated to a transmission line and allocated in said communication apparatus for transmitting said transmitted data on the basis of line-setting information; and a plurality of transmission lines connecting said communication apparatuses to each other, said intensive management apparatus comprising: a path-information-creating unit for creating path information including a group identifier, termination information of terminating connection points, a path management number assigned to a path connecting said terminating connection points at which said time slots in said communication apparatus are allocated and an allocated-time-slot number; a time-slot allocating unit for creating time-slot-allocation information describing allocation of said time slots to a path identified by said path management number included in said time-slot-allocation information at each of said terminating connection points: a path-information-checking unit for forming a judgment as to whether or not a plurality of paths identified by the same value of said group identifier assigned to a path-information group comprising pieces of path information group describing said paths on the basis of said path information and said time-slot-allocation, are defined correctly between said plurality of terminals, wherein said path information and time-slot-allocation information are defined separately, and a result display unit for displaying results of said judgment.