A method and/or system and/or apparatus for mapping a protocol including data and a limited number of control codes to an efficient encoding protocol for carrying on various other networks, particularly those with parallel processing. In specific embodiments, the invention decodes 8b/10b type data to 8b data, and then maps the data into transparent GFP frames or blocks and can further map the frames into superblocks of frames and in further embodiments add padding characters on the fly to constructed blocks to reduce buffering needed and to reduce variable delay created during frame construction.