Digital cross-connect system

Multiplex communications – Pathfinding or routing – Through a circuit switch

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370464, 3408258, H04J 302

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ABSTRACT:
A digital cross-connect system has a network management system for designating input and output terminals and delivering one-to-one connection and one-to-many branch connection request signals, and a plurality of cross-connect devices each including a multistage switch for switching connections between the input and output terminals over former, intermediate, and latter stages, and a switch control device for controlling switched connections between the input and output terminals. The network management system designates a switch in the latter stage and delivers a one-to-many connection request signal. The switch control device instructs a switch in the former stage to make a one-to-one connection only and inhibits the switch from making a one-to-many branch connection in response to the one-to-many connection request signal, and also instructs the designated switch in the latter stage to inhibit signals from being supplied from input terminals other than one designated input terminal. If the switch designated by the one-to-many connection request signal is blocked and fails to make any connections, then error information is returned from the switch control device to the network management system.

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Clos, Charles, "A Study of Non-Blocking Switching Networks", The Bell System Technical Journal, vol. xxxii, No. 2, pp. 406-424, Mar. 1953, AT&T.
Kodaira, Kunio, "Optimum Multiconnection Networks which are Non-Blocking in the Wide Sense", IEICE Trans., '81/8, vol. J64-B, No. 8, pp. 839-846, Aug. 1981.

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