Abstract:
In a telephone exchange comprising a central processor serving several satellite exchanges, a satellite is completely blocked when the cable which connects it to the processor is out of order. According to the invention, each pair of satellites is interconnected by means of a single communication channel so that the transfer of data between the processor and the satellite whose cable is out of order may be effected via another satellite.
Abstract:
A central data processor for controlling the switching of a call through a multiexchange network. A table is developed to list switching paths through the network in the order of their normal occupation level, their priority assignments, and their busy hour priority. Data from the tables are stored on a semipermanent memory. This memory controls the order of search for an idle path through the exchange and causes the lowest occupation level, nonpriority direct paths to be searched first and sequentially searching, if necessary, passes to higher occupation levels and then to indirect paths in the order set out on the developed tables.