Multiplex communications – Wide area network – Packet switching
Patent
1988-03-31
1990-07-17
Olms, Douglas W.
Multiplex communications
Wide area network
Packet switching
3408255, 370 856, H04L 500
Patent
active
049425749
ABSTRACT:
A high capacity metropolitan area network (MAN) is described. Data traffic from users is connected to data concentrators at the edge of the network, and is transmitted over fiber optic data links to a hub where the data is switched. The hub includes a plurality of data switching modules, each having a control means, and each connected to a distributed control space division switch. Advantageously, the data switching modules, whose inputs are connected to the concentrators, perform all checking and routing functions, while the 1024.times.1024 maximum size space division switch, whose outputs are connected to the concentrators, provides a large fan-out distribution network for reaching many concentrators from each data switching module. The data switching modules chain groups of incoming packets destined for a common outlet of the space division switch so that only one connection in that switch is required for transmitting each group of chained packets from a data switching module to a concentrator. MAN provides security features including a port identification supplied by the data concentrators, and a check that each packet is from an authorized source user, transmitting on a port associated with that user, to an authorized destination user that is in the same group (virtual network) as the source user.
In accordance with one enbodiment of the invention, a data ring communicates space division switch outlet availability to each of the data switching modules in turn, in order to resolve the contention among these modules for a particular outlet. Each data switching module maintains a list of outlets for which it has accumulated a group of at least one packet destined for that outlet; a data switching module then seizes an available outlet by marking that outlet unavailable in the data communicated by the data ring.
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American Telephone and Telegraph Company AT&T Bell Laboratories
Marcelo Melvin
Olms Douglas W.
Ulrich Werner
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