A METHOD AND SYSTEM FOR TRANSPORTING INFORMATION VIA THE XGMII OR FIBER CHANNEL STANDARD

摘要

Information is transformed between two link partners (10,20) as Sequence Ordered Sets or Signal Ordered Sets in XGMII or Fibre Channel (18). Such sets are defined to not be amended by intervening PHY's and may be transmitted even when there is no other traffic between the link partners. The information transmitted may be congestion information in a situation where there is heavy traffic in one direction between the link partners (10,20) and little or no traffic in the other direction.