METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR MULTI-GIGABIT ETHERNET (R) ARCHITECTURE

摘要

PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To provide a network architecture that can operate at a transfer speed higher than 1 Gbps.;SOLUTION: The Ethernet (R) architecture enables the transfer of data by striping individual frames across a plurality of logical channels, thus allowing operation at substantially the sum of the individual channel rates. A distributor within a sending entity's network interface distributes frame bytes in a round-robin fashion on the plurality of channels. Each mini-frame is separately framed and encoded for transmission across its channel. A receiving entity's network interface includes a collector for collecting multiple mini-frames and reconstructing the frame's byte stream.;COPYRIGHT: (C)2011,JPO&INPIT