Architecture and organization of a high performance metropolitan area telecommunications packet network
CA 1311037 C · Owner: American Telephone And Telegraph Company · Inventors: Weddige, Ronald Clare; Steele, Scott Blair; Roediger, Gary Arthur
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Abstract, A high capacity metropolitan area network (MAN) is described. Data traffic from users is connected to data concentrators at the edge of the network and is transmitted over fiber optic data links to a hub where the data is switched. The hub includes a plurality of data switching modules each having a control, means, and each connected to a distributed control space division switch. Advantageously the data switching modules, whose inputs are connected to the concentrators, perform all checking and routing functions while the 1024x1024, maximum size space division switch whose outputs are connected to the, concentrators provides a large fan-out distribution network for reaching many …
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- Granted December 1, 1992. A Canadian patent filed before October 1, 1989 lasted 17 years from grant, so its term ended December 1, 2009.
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