Method and apparatus for enabling transport of ethernet data over a serial digital interface transport service

Abstract

A method and apparatus enables Ethernet data transport over a serial digital interface network. An Embedder/DeEmbedder for embedding Ethernet derived data and for de-embedding Ethernet derived data supports selective use of the active video region of the SDI frame and the unused HANC space for transporting Ethernet media independent interface data.

1 . An apparatus for enabling transport of Ethernet derived data over a serial digital interface video transport service comprising:
 an embedder for embedding Ethernet derived data into a horizontal ancillary (HANC) data space of a serial digital interface frame; and,   a de-embedder for de-embedding Ethernet derived data that is embedded in a serial digital interface frame; and,   
   
   
       2 . An apparatus for transporting data over a serial digital interface video transport service comprising:
 an embedder operably connected to a media independent interface said embedder for embedding Ethernet data received and processed by said media independent interface into a horizontal ancillary (HANC) data space of a serial digital interface frame; and,   a de-embedder operably connected to a media independent interface said de-embedder for de-embedding data embedded in a serial digital interface frame and said media independent interface for converting said de-embedded data for use in an Ethernet data network.   
   
   
       3 . A method of transmitting Ethernet data between two or more hosts comprising the steps of:
 acquiring Ethernet data from one of said hosts and embedding Ethernet derived data into a horizontal ancillary (HANC) data space of a serial digital interface frame;   transporting said Ethernet derived data over a serial digital interface transport service;   de-embedding the Ethernet derived data from the serial digital interface frame; and,   utilizing Ethernet data derived from said Ethernet derived data in an Ethernet network.