Fully shared communications network
CA 2015248 C · Owner: Ash, Gerald R. · Inventors: Ash, Gerald R.; Schwartz, Steven D.
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The architecture of a communication network comprising a plurality of nodes interconnected by a transmission facility having a bandwidth divisible into channels of respective bandwidths e.g. optical, fiber, is enhanced by fully sharing the network bandwidth among the network nodes, such that each pair of nodes on periodic basis, dynamically, establishes respective direct links to each of the other network nodes in, which a direct link is formed from a group of channels obtained from the network bandwidth. The remaining bandwidth is then used to form a pool of bandwidth which is shared among the network nodes on a dynamic basis such as, for example, establishing a communication path between …
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- Filed April 24, 1990 and granted December 17, 1996. A Canadian patent filed from October 1, 1989 lasts 20 years from filing, so its term ended April 24, 2010.
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