Multiplex communications – Pathfinding or routing – Switching a message which includes an address header
Patent
1997-11-03
2000-07-18
Olms, Douglas W.
Multiplex communications
Pathfinding or routing
Switching a message which includes an address header
370360, 370381, H04L 1256
Patent
active
060917288
ABSTRACT:
An ATM-switch for high transmission rates is built of primary switch cores. A path for a cell through the switch is determined at the arrival of the cell at the switch and this path is coded as a control word, which is transferred through the switch in parallel to the cell itself. The control word indicates directly how the transfer through each primary element of the switch is to be made. Each primary element must only have two inputs and two outputs. The control word then consists of one bit for every stage of primary switch elements in the switch and this bit indicates directly the output from which the cell is to be forwarded from a considered switch element. The switch cores are constructed of intermediate storage memories, one for each pair of one input and one output, and these intermediate storage memories can have a rather limited capacity for storing only a few cells together with their associated control words. The control word indicates to a cell arriving at an input the intermediate storage memory, where the cell is to be intermediately stored. The intermediate storage memories can be shift registers and independent units take care of the storing of cells and the forwarding of cells from the switch core.
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Bergstedt P.
Lazraq Tawfik
Mikhtari Mehran
Tenhunen Hannu
Olms Douglas W.
Telefonaktiebolaget LM Ericsson
Vanderpuye Kenneth
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