Patent ID: 6842787

Claim:
Method of converting virtually concatenated data streams into continuously concatenated data streams, wherein the data is transmitted in containers which are inserted into pulse frames, a sequence of N containers is combined to form a multiframe, each container is provided with a multiframe indicator relating to its position with respect to time within the multiframe, and the virtually concatenated data streams consist of X partial data streams/channels, characterized in that containers which are allocated in each case to the same point in the multiframe are identified by evaluation of the multiframe indicator, the time shift of these identified individual containers of the partial data streams with respect to each other is measured, in the event of a shift being present only leading containers are delayed in each case by periods of time which ensure that all containers are aligned with respect to time, and in each channel fill levels of buffer memories are compared with threshold values and in dependence thereon channel-individual stuff-indications are generated and stuffing operations are performed under consideration of the stuff-indications of all channels.