PCM Switching network with surplus capacity

Details PCM Switching network with surplus capacity PCM Switching network with surplus capacity

1983-09-01

1985-08-20

Olms, Douglas W.

Multiplex communications

Wide area network

Packet switching

370 63, H04J 116, H04J 314

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045368708

ABSTRACT:
A network for selectively switching channels from n incoming PCM links to as many outgoing PCM links comprises two sections of a receiving-side stage with n input terminals each, connected in parallel to respective incoming links, and with m output terminals working into an intermediate stage with 2m input terminals and as many output terminals. The latter are connected to respective input terminals of two sections of a transmitting-side stage with n output terminals each; homologous output terminals of the two transmitting-side sections are alternatively connectable to respective channels of n outgoing PCM links by means of multiplexers which are switched by a logic unit under the control of a processor also detecting possible malfunctions in any section. Each stage consists of a multiplicity of temporal or spatial switching matrices. With m lying between n/2 and n, and with all matrices operating normally, the logic unit routes about half the incoming channels through each receiving-side section and each transmitting-side section; the matrices of the intermediate stage provide a plurality of alternate paths between any receiving-side matrix and any transmitting-side matrix. When a receiving-side or transmitting side matrix fails, the routes established therethrough are transferred to its counterpart in the other section of the respective stage; failure of an intermediate matrix results in a redistribution of its routes through the remaining matrices of this stage.

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