1020. Determine, from total bandwidth resources of the multiple physical connections and according to timeslot configuration tables used by the multiple physical connections, a timeslot bandwidth resource that belongs to the target virtual connection, where a timeslot configuration table used by each physical connection is used to indicate a virtual connection to which each timeslot bandwidth resource obtained by dividing a bandwidth resource of each physical connection belongs.
1030. Restore, from the data stream and according to the timeslot bandwidth resource that belongs to the target virtual connection, the service stream transmitted over the target virtual connection.
In a current system, a transmit end transmits content of each timeslot configuration table to the receive end, and indicates a currently used table in an overhead area. Therefore, a large amount of redundant information (for example, content of a timeslot configuration table that is not used by a current physical connection does not need to be transmitted) is transmitted. However, in this embodiment of the present invention, only content of a timeslot configuration table used by the current physical connection is transmitted in the overhead area, so that transmission efficiency is improved, and a waste of overhead resources is avoided.