摘要:
A telecommunications switching device includes a plurality of ports and a plurality of switching units and a connecting circuit for connecting each of the ports to each of the switching units in turn. The connecting circuit includes a photonic channel separation circuit and a photonic space switching circuit.
摘要:
An asynchronous time division (ATD) switch for carrying out packet switching. In one embodiment a switch has 256 ports running at 155 M bits and is capable of switching incoming data cells at each of the input ports to any one of 256 output ports. At each input port a switch sequentially distributes the received data cells over 16 outputs each of which is connected to a different DMR circuit. There are 256 DMR circuits each having 16 inputs and 16 outputs. A DMR circuit is a fixed space switching device which has N inputs, N time intervals and N outputs and operates cyclically so that each input goes to each output for 1/Nth of the time. The inner stage of the ATD switch comprises 256 central switches each having 16 inputs and 16 outputs. Each central stage switch has its 16 inputs connected to 16 different DMR circuits. The fourth stage of the switch consists of another array of 256 output DMR circuits with each central switch being connected to 16 different output DMR circuits. Each input DMR has its outputs connected to 16 different output ports. The internal circuitry of the ATD switch runs on 20 M bits. When a data cell is received at an input port its destination is derived from a header attached to the cell. Control circuitry enables the receiving port to request three addresses to query three possible routes through the switch. The ability to provide this series of questions is given by staggering the windows through which an output port can communicate with the central switches. Although data streams are received asynchronously the operation of the ATD switch is synchronous.
摘要:
A telecommunications system comprising one or more cross-connects and a plurality of telephone exchanges wherein two or more of the telephone exchanges are arranged to communicate with each other via the one or more routers and an adapter for providing the telephone exchanges with a means of inter-communication via the one or more routers wherein the adapter converts traffic between packetised and non-packetised form.
摘要:
An ATM telecommunications switch includes a plurality of parallel data switching planes and a parallel control plane, each plane having an equal number of input ports and output ports and a central switching unit to switch each input port to any output port. Data from a single timeslot on the central switching unit is connected to a plurality of output ports in a point to multipoint operation. A multipoint memory stores information regarding the data addresses and a forward transfer store provides additional storage for multipoint cells.
摘要:
In an Asynchronous Transfer Mode telecommunications network having a plurality of virtual paths or circuits, an encryption key used for data transmitted between a source and a receiver may be updated, the data being transmitted initially using a first encryption key by a first of the plurality of virtual paths or circuits, by a connection being estabished by a second of the plurality of virtual paths or circuits and sending a second encryption key by that connection from the source to the receiver and subsequently transmitting the data using the second encryption key by the second of the plurality of virtual paths or circuits.
摘要:
An ATM telecommunications switch includes a plurality of parallel data switching planes and a parallel control plane, each plane having an equal number of input ports and output ports and a central switching unit to switch each input port to any output port. A single data stream is divided between a plurality of input ports and the data is concatenated from a plurality of output ports to reconstitute the data stream. A first rotator connects each input port cyclically to each timelslot of the central switching unit and a second rotator connects each timeslot of the central switching unit cyclically to each output port.
摘要:
A wideband/multislot switching arrangement is provided for use in a digital telecommunications exchange. A call handling device is provided which receives signalling information about a path connection, and which communicates with a switch interface to generate a single switch request. The switch interface includes a map record of each circuit connection controlled by the call handling device and generates multiple switch requests which are used to control a number of switches to make the path connections.
摘要:
A telecommunications system comprising one or more cross-connects and a plurality of telephone exchanges. Two or more of the telephone exchanges are arranged to communicate with each other via the one or more cross-connects. An adapter provides the telephone exchanges with inter-communication via the one or more cross-connects. The adapter converts traffic between packetized and non-packetized form.
摘要:
An optical communications network comprising a Head End Unit connected to a plurality of groups of Network Termination Equipments (NTE) and/or Optical Network Units (ONU), wherein downstream communication is by Time Division Multiplex, wherein a group is multiplexed onto a stream and a plurality of streams are combined into a higher speed multiplex and upstream communication is by Time Division Multiplex Access is characterized by enabling the NTE's or ONU's to negotiate bandwidth in respect of low level upstream traffic and by pre-allocating bandwidth to individual NTE's or ONU's in respect of high level upstream traffic.
摘要:
The invention concerns an Asynchronous Transfer Mode Switch having a plurality of input stages (IS1 . . . 1SN) each for receiving a digital data transmission stream (DS1 . . . 256) consisting of a series of cells and wherein each input stage of the switch includes a circuit (52) for determining the destination of the cells of that data stream, and a circuit (63) for disassembling each cell into cell elements and for allocating to each cell element routing data to enable it to be routed across the central stages.