Multiplex communications – Wide area network – Packet switching
Patent
1988-11-18
1990-03-27
Olms, Douglas W.
Multiplex communications
Wide area network
Packet switching
370 1, 370103, 375109, H04J 306
Patent
active
049127063
ABSTRACT:
In an optical switching network, a master optical space switch is interconnected with remote slave equipment for switching block-multiplexed messages among the remote equipment. The master optical space switch responds to a frequency reference clock and steps through a sequence of states, or configurations, for establishing various routes among the remote equipment for appropriately routing the messages to correct destinations. The frequency reference clock also is distributed to the remote equipment. During one of the states per frame, each remote slave equipment transmits a distinct signature signal. All of the slave equipments are connected through the master optical space switch to return to themselves their own signals transmitted during that time slot. Each remote slave equipment compares the returned signal with the originally transmitted signature signal to determine how much the round trip delay has varied from a nominal value. Phase of a local control clock signal in the slave equipment is adjusted to counteract the variation of the round trip delay. Thus the operation of the slave equipment is adjusted into synchronization with the master optical space switch so that messages transmitted from the slave equipment arrive at the master optical space switch at the appropriate time with respect to the periodic reconfigurations of the master optical space switch.
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Eisenberg Martin
Holtzman Jack M.
Mehravari Nader
American Telephone and Telegraph Company
AT&T Bell Laboratories
Havill Richard B.
Hsu Alpus H.
Olms Douglas W.
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