Abstract: An apparatus includes line interface cards coupled to a plurality of paths, a first processor configured to control the line interface cards, and a controller including a second processor. The second processor is configured to detect notification information from the line interface cards and determine whether the detected notification information is priority path notification information indicating information on a priority path having a high priority level among the plurality of paths, and transfer the priority path notification information to the first processor, with a higher priority than non-priority path notification information indicating information on a non-priority path other than the priority path.

Abstract: A data relay device relays data between a base station device and a base station control device. The data relay device includes a data transmission time acquiring unit that acquires a data transmission time from when data is transmitted from the data relay device to when the data is received by the data relay device via the base station device, a frame value detecting unit that detects a predetermined frame value from a frame transmitted from the base station control device and stores the data, and a frame transmitting unit that, when the predetermined frame value is detected, after a predetermined time elapses in addition to the data transmission time acquired by the data transmission time acquiring unit after detection, transmits a frame having the same frame value as the detected one to a transmission source of the frame from which the predetermined frame value is detected.

Abstract: A Radio Equipment Controller connected, via a plurality of transmission paths, to a plurality of pieces of Radio Equipment for performing communication with a mobile station, and also connected to an upper-level device is provided. The Radio Equipment Controller includes a required time measurement portion that measures, for each piece of Radio Equipment, required time for the Radio Equipment and the Radio Equipment Controller to relay data that has a predetermined size and is transmitted and received between the upper-level device and the mobile station, and a relaying portion that relays target data that is data to be transmitted and received between the upper-level device and the mobile station by delaying a time to transmit the target data based on the required time for the Radio Equipment relaying the target data.

Abstract: A relay device that monitors and controls common public radio interface (CPRI) links that are links using CPRIs functioning as interfaces for connecting multiple relay devices included in a radio base station detects a disconnected CPRI link by monitoring, via the CPRI links, relay information containing communication data and control data. The relay device distributes a control content, such as a forced link disconnection that forcibly disconnect a CPRI link or no-transmission that stops the transmission of the communication data, with respect to each CPRI link in accordance with a connecting location of the CPRI link in which a link disconnection is detected. The relay device monitors and controls each CPRI link.

Abstract: A relay device that monitors and controls common public radio interface (CPRI) links that are links using CPRIs functioning as interfaces for connecting multiple relay devices included in a radio base station detects a disconnected CPRI link by monitoring, via the CPRI links, relay information containing communication data and control data. The relay device distributes a control content, such as a forced link disconnection that forcibly disconnect a CPRI link or no-transmission that stops the transmission of the communication data, with respect to each CPRI link in accordance with a connecting location of the CPRI link in which a link disconnection is detected. The relay device monitors and controls each CPRI link.

Abstract: A data relay device relays data between a base station device and a base station control device. The data relay device includes a data transmission time acquiring unit that acquires a data transmission time from when data is transmitted from the data relay device to when the data is received by the data relay device via the base station device, a frame value detecting unit that detects a predetermined frame value from a frame transmitted from the base station control device and stores the data, and a frame transmitting unit that, when the predetermined frame value is detected, after a predetermined time elapses in addition to the data transmission time acquired by the data transmission time acquiring unit after detection, transmits a frame having the same frame value as the detected one to a transmission source of the frame from which the predetermined frame value is detected.

Abstract: A Radio Equipment Controller connected, via a plurality of transmission paths, to a plurality of pieces of Radio Equipment for performing communication with a mobile station, and also connected to an upper-level device is provided. The Radio Equipment Controller includes a required time measurement portion that measures, for each piece of Radio Equipment, required time for the Radio Equipment and the Radio Equipment Controller to relay data that has a predetermined size and is transmitted and received between the upper-level device and the mobile station, and a relaying portion that relays target data that is data to be transmitted and received between the upper-level device and the mobile station by delaying a time to transmit the target data based on the required time for the Radio Equipment relaying the target data.

Abstract: In a phase adjusting method and device in which a phase deviation between main signal frames themselves returned from a station end device through an antenna end device to the station end device without using a control signal for the phase adjustment, a reference signal generated in a first device is commonly mapped to respective down main signal frames of a first and a second system to be outputted to a second device, the second device maps, pointer values indicating timings of the reference signal in the respective down main signal frames to respective up main signal frames of the first and the second system to be outputted to the first device, and the first device extracts respective pointer values from the respective main signal frames and adjust frames of the respective up main signal frames based on the respective pointer values.

Abstract: An optical network unit and an optical line terminal which efficiently control the data receiving and dechurning processes in a passive optical network. In a churning parameter memory subsystem, a first memory bank stores churning parameters that are currently used, while a second memory bank stores updates made to the churning parameters. Under the control of the churning parameter memory subsystem, those first and second memory banks change their roles with each other at a churning key updating time point. A data dechurning unit receives a data stream consisting of a plurality of frames and dechurns the information contained in the data stream, according to the stored churning parameters. When an update is done to the parameters in a certain frame, the data dechurning unit makes the update effective at the next frame, thus starting data dechurning operations from the next frame.

Abstract: In a phase adjusting method and device in which a phase deviation between main signal frames themselves returned from a station end device through an antenna end device to the station end device without using a control signal for the phase adjustment, a reference signal generated in a first device is commonly mapped to respective down main signal frames of a first and a second system to be outputted to a second device, the second device maps, pointer values indicating timings of the reference signal in the respective down main signal frames to respective up main signal frames of the first and the second system to be outputted to the first device, and the first device extracts respective pointer values from the respective main signal frames and adjust frames of the respective up main signal frames based on the respective pointer values.

Abstract: An optical network unit and an optical line terminal which efficiently control the data receiving and dechurning processes in a passive optical network. In a churning parameter memory subsystem, a first memory bank stores churning parameters that are currently used, while a second memory bank stores updates made to the churning parameters. Under the control of the churning parameter memory subsystem, those first and second memory banks change their roles with each other at a churning key updating time point. A data dechurning unit receives a data stream consisting of a plurality of frames and dechurns the information contained in the data stream, according to the stored churning parameters. When an update is done to the parameters in a certain frame, the data dechurning unit makes the update effective at the next frame, thus starting data dechurning operations from the next frame.

Abstract: An optical network unit and an optical line terminal which efficiently control the data receiving and dechurning processes in a passive optical network. In a churning parameter memory subsystem, a first memory bank stores churning parameters that are currently used, while a second memory bank stores updates made to the churning parameters. Under the control of the churning parameter memory subsystem, those first and second memory banks change their roles with each other at a churning key updating time point. A data dechurning unit receives a data stream consisting of a plurality of frames and dechurns the information contained in the data stream, according to the stored churning parameters. When an update is done to the parameters in a certain frame, the data dechurning unit makes the update effective at the next frame, thus starting data dechurning operations from the next frame.

Abstract: In an ATM cell multiplexer which multiplexes ATM cells outputted from a plurality of cards, sequential cell arrival numbers common to the ATM cells outputted from a plurality of cards are added to each of the cells to be written in memories, and the read side checks a sequentiality of the cell arrival numbers whereby the ATM cells are read in the order of arrival and the cell arrival number at that time is used as the cell arrival number to be checked at the next read time. Also, when any of the cards is pulled out, a card not pulled out is operated normally and an address counter of only the pulled-out card is cleared. Even when non-sequentiality of the cell arrival numbers occurs due to the clearance of the address counter, the maximum cell arrival number is set to the value which enables the oldest cells to be read first.

Abstract: An optical subscriber line terminal unit and a state transition control method are provided which are capable of stabilizing operation. State information storing means, which is a nonvolatile memory, stores state information about the unit. Startup preparatory state shifting means causes a shift to a startup preparatory state at startup. Flag setting means sets an emergency stop state flag during the period of the startup preparatory state if it is judged based on the state information that a state before the startup is an emergency stop state. State transition control means causes a shift from the startup preparatory state to the emergency stop state if the emergency stop state flag is set, and causes a shift from the startup preparatory state to an initial state if the emergency stop state flag is not set.

Abstract: A delay adjustment unit and optical network unit which efficiently adjust the delay time of upstream data to improve the quality of data transmission services. Upstream transmission data is segmented into small data blocks. A downstream receiver receives control information on which upstream data blocks are granted or not granted to the unit. It also received an equalization delay update request that commands the unit to update its current equalization delay parameter. When this equalization delay update request is received, a delay adjustment controller controls the delay of each data block, depending on whether the transmission of each subsequent data block is granted. An upstream transmitter then transmits the granted data blocks with the adjusted delay times.

Abstract: A fixed-length cell multiplexing/distributing processing is disclosed. The apparatus for this processing includes a plurality of fixed-length cell transmitting apparatuses, each of which sends a fixed-length cell, and a fixed-length cell multiplexing apparatus which multiplexes the fixed-length cells received from the fixed-length cell transmitting apparatuses and outputs the thus multiplexed cells. One of the plurality of fixed-length cell transmitting apparatuses is configured as a highest-priority fixed-length cell transmitting apparatus. Further, the highest-priority fixed-length cell transmitting apparatus comprises a fixed-length cell storage section and a fixed-length cell read control section. The fixed-length cell multiplexing apparatus comprises a plurality of FIFO storage sections, an FIFO control section, and a multiplexing section. With this structure, information to be notified is divided into fixed-length cells for transmission.