| 摘要 |
A network bridging apparatus for a storage device and a data stream transmitting method thereof are provided. More particularly, a chip embedded with ATA over Ethernet (AoE) technology is incorporated into the network bridging apparatus. By which the independent-external storage device can be shared over a network. According to a preferred embodiment, a bridging module having the technology of AoE is included for converting either network packets or data being compatible with some standard data transmission formats. Preferably, one end of the apparatus is equipped with a network interface unit for connecting to the network, and further, the other end of the network bridging apparatus is connected to a storage device via a transmission interface. Therefore, the storage device using a standard transmission interface, such as USB, IEEE1394. eSATA or the like, can be shared with other computer systems within the local area network.
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