Method of handling a signalling and management communication traffic

摘要

The invention concerns a method of handling a signalling and management communication traffic in a network element, as well as the network element to execute this method. The signalling and management communication traffic is transmitted between network elements of a transmission system in embedded communication channels by means of a HDLC-framed point-to-point protocol. Said network element receives the signalling and management communication traffic on one or more first embedded communication channels via one or more embedded communication channel interfaces. The received signalling and management communication traffic is trans-coded by stripping a data payload (205) from frames (200) according to a HDLC-framed point-to-point protocol and inserting the stripped data payload (305) into Ethernet frames (300). The trans-coded signalling and management communication traffic is routed by means of an Ethernet-based routing unit.