Arrangement for switching concentrated telecommunications packet traffic
CA 1315376 C · Owner: Roediger, Gary Arthur · Inventors: Knudsen, Michael Jeremy; Zelle, Bruce Ronald; Richards, Gaylord Warner
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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 March 30, 1993. A Canadian patent filed before October 1, 1989 lasted 17 years from grant, so its term ended March 30, 2010.
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