Patent ID: 7116684

Claim:
A cell disassembly unit for converting ATM cells into STM signals, comprising a cell loss detection section, sequence number generation section, write address generation section, memory, read address generation section, sequence number confirmation section, dummy data generation section, and a selector, wherein: said cell loss detection section disassembles said ATM cells sent from the outside into bytes, and sequentially sends said bytes after disassembly to said memory, and also detects the loss of said ATM cells; said sequence number generation section generates sequence numbers which change by 1 each time if there is no ATM cell loss according to the sequence of transmission of said bytes, and which change for the number of lost bytes if the loss of said ATM cells occurs; said write address generation section generates a write address for writing a set of said byte and said sequence number in said memory; said read address generation section generates a read address for reading a set of said byte and said sequence number from said memory in the sequence of the transmission; said selector sends either said bytes read from said memory or dummy data generated by said dummy data generation section to the outside as said STM signals; and said sequence number confirmation section sends said bytes which were read to said selector if said sequence number which was read from said memory has been changed only by 1 compared with said sequence number which was previously read, or sends the bytes which were read to the selector after sending M number of bytes of the dummy data to said selector if the sequence number which was read has been changed by M, which is a number greater than 1, compared with the sequence number which was previously read.