Multiplex communications – Wide area network – Packet switching
Patent
1990-12-31
1993-01-26
Safourek, Benedict V.
Multiplex communications
Wide area network
Packet switching
370 582, 370 16, 379221, 379230, 379269, H04J 312
Patent
active
051827506
ABSTRACT:
A switching architecture interconnecting remote switches to a central processor via standard links which may be set up through any number of intervening switching systems utilizing standard switching procedures. The standard links are ISDN links that may be set up dynamically via switching networks within the switching system or via the public switching network. The fact that an ISDN goes through a portion of the switching system or the public switching network is transparent to both the central processor and remote switch. Upon detecting that a primary central processor is no longer in control, each remote switch attempts to obtain an alternate path to the primary central processor. If a remote switch is unable to obtain an alternate path to the primary central processor, the remote switch switches to an alternate central processor on the assumption that the primary central processor has failed. Because the paths can be made on directly connected ISDN links, through the switching system, or through the public switching network to either the primary central processor or the alternate central processor, there is a high probability of a remote switch being able to obtain such a path.
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Bales Bruce M.
Crumpley Robert L.
North Sandra S.
Thieler Stephen M.
AT&T Bell Laboratories
Kizou H.
Moran John C.
Safourek Benedict V.
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