Multiplex communications – Wide area network – Packet switching
Patent
1992-09-30
1996-02-06
Lee, Thomas C.
Multiplex communications
Wide area network
Packet switching
370 60, 370 941, 370 8513, 3642222, 36424294, 3642844, 364DIG1, G06F 1300
Patent
active
054902525
ABSTRACT:
An internetworking system for exchanging packets of information between networks, the system comprising a network interface module for connecting a network to the system, receiving packets from the network in a native packet format used by the network and converting each received native packet to a packet having a generic format common to all networks connected to the system, and converting each of the generic packets to the native packet format for transmission to the network; a communication channel for carrying the generic packets to and from the network interface module, the channel having bandwidth; a first processing module for controlling dynamic allocation and deallocation of the channel bandwidth to the network connected to the system via the network interface module; and a second processing module for receiving all of the generic packets put on the channel by the network interface module, determining a destination network interface module for each of the generic packets on the channel, determining whether each of the generic packet needs to be bridged to the destination network interface module, and transmitting each of the generic packets determined to need bridging to the destination network interface module via the channel.
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Bennett Victor
Bruns Frank J.
Deshpande Gururaj
Greene Jeremy
Jennings William E.
Bay Networks Group, Inc.
Lee Thomas C.
Meky Moustafa M.
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