Concentrator-based growable packet switch

Details Concentrator-based growable packet switch Concentrator-based growable packet switch

1991-11-26

1993-10-26

Olms, Douglas W.

Multiplex communications

Wide area network

Packet switching

370 60, H04Q 1104

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052569586

ABSTRACT:
An m.times.n (m>n) output Packet Switch Unit is implemented by using an n.times.n Packet Switch Module and an m:n Concentrator. The arriving packet cells are supplied from the m Concentrator inputs to the n Concentrator outputs in a "first-in first-out" (FIFO) sequence. The Concentrator provides for buffering of arriving packet cells on the m Concentrator inputs in excess of available packet cell positions in the n Concentrator outputs until they can be supplied to a concentrator output in the FIFO sequence. In turn, packet cells from the n Concentrator outputs are supplied to n inputs of the Packet Switch Module which supplies them to appropriate output destinations associated with the n outputs of the Packet Switch Module. A plurality of the Concentrator-Based output Packet Switch Units is readily employed to implement any "larger" Packet Switch architecture.

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