Multiplex communications – Wide area network – Packet switching
Patent
1989-08-22
1991-02-19
Olms, Douglas W.
Multiplex communications
Wide area network
Packet switching
370 8511, H04J 328
Patent
active
049950320
ABSTRACT:
A label-switching and control interface for asynchronous fast-packet switching consisting of a set of label-switching and cell-processing units controlled by a suitable control unit. The units operate at each multiplex level in real time thanks to a microprogrammed logic requiring the control processor intervention only at the connection set-up/release. The units implement the low levels of the flow control algorithms necessary to conveniently exploit the advantages of the techniques. The label becomes indicative of a virtual circuit which is allotted only locally to the call, annulling thus the necessity of very extensive labels, while the parameters which characterize the connection which uses a particular label are stored in the unit itself. Each unit switches the label characterizing the connection on the node input multiplex, with that whereby it is characterized on the output multiplex and at the same time associates, with each cell, the information necessary to multiplex switching which is then carried out in a self-routing network. The cells processed in this way by each unit of the set are statistically multiplexed in an asynchronous way and sent to a connection network termination. Such a termination serves a plurality of asynchronous multiplexes, which can be at a different frequency from each other and more particularly it is worth noting that each label-switching unit does not have its own operating frequency, but automatically takes up that of the asynchronous multiplex to which it is connected.
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DeMichelis Carlo
Mattone Paolo
Zappalorto Alessandro
CSELT - Centro Studi e Laboratori Telecomunicazioni S.P.A.
Dubno Herbert
Jung Min
Olms Douglas W.
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